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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear and it is of all things degrading.
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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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 wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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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 are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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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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