Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
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“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”
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“In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”
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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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“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.”
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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 is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.”
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“Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
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“It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.”
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“A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.”
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“I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.”
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“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
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“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
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“Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”
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“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
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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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“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
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“We belong to the race that knows Joseph”
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“Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.”
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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 laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
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“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
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“The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.”
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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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“Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.”
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“It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?”
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“Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father." "Well, I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott," said Miss Cornelia placidly. "But let us hear your rules." "The first one is, catch him." "He's caught. Go on." "The second one is, feed him well." "With enough pie. What next?" "The third and fourth are-- keep your eye on him.”
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“Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.”
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“If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery”
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