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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

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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Prince Edward Island
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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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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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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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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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.
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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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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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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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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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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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