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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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There 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
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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 have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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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.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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