We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in 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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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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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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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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