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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

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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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life there were to be future summers for the little stone house meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
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Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
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The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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...a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.
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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
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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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Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert)
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