A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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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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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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