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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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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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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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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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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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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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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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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