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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope big stars were shining over the silent fields here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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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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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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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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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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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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