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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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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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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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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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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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We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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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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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
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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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Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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