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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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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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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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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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 will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert)
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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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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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