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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
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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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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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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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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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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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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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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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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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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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