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To dispair is to turn your back on God.

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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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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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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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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Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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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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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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