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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYA child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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