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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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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Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
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If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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You see, she concluded miserably, when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
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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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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
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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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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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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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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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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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