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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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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 read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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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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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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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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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
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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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