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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?
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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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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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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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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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brains last, beauty doesn't.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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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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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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