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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it...
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life
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Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.
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hope
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant...
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November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray hair and wrinkles. We've had lovely days and delicious twilights.
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november
fall
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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
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My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.
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You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that.
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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously...
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sunshine
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The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen...wonderful things.
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tomorrow
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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life...
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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poem
humor
stealing
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If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.
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Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them."
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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And your own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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I'm glad never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. would be worth the pain.
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Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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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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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting."
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sting
pretty
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The future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities.
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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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violets
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a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world."
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
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I wonder what a soul...a person's soul...would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers...and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea...and some are pale and transparent lik..
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souls
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People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
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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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violets
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I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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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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love
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Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.
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night
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Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
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I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I -- as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again -- it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.
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But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?"
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There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
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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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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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L.M. Montgomery |
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here,
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There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.
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remembering
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I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.
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L.M. Montgomery |
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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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understanding
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And two years ago this morning I woke wondering what delightful gift the new day would give me. These are the two years I thought would be filled with fun." "Would you exchange them - now - for two years filled with fun " "No " said Rilla slowly. "I wouldn't. It's strange - isn't it - They have been two terrible years - and yet I have a queer feeling of thankfulness for them - as if they had brought me something very precious in all their..
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Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.
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sleep
love
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