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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.
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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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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