She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThere 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
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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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 have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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