We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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