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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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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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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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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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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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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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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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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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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
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