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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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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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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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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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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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