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.
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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with 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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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