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 MONTGOMERYMy life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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