There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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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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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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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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