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To dispair is to turn your back on God.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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I've a pocket full of dreams to sell, said Teddy, whimsically,... What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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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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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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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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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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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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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
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