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29b2cab We make our own lives wherever we are, after all . L.M. Montgomery
a12fa03 was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a sly, jovial wind came piping down the red harbour road along L.M. Montgomery
2832ce7 Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? L.M. Montgomery
fde147c The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. But L.M. Montgomery
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996fd56 Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years--each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chap.. L.M. Montgomery
632ca3a of a cross-marked grave "somewhere in France." But tonight it was only a shadow ... nothing more." L.M. Montgomery
6cca377 it has taught me a lesson not to give my word of honor about cows. L.M. Montgomery
8168bd1 Oh, I wish we had the old days back again," exclaimed Jem. "I'd love to be a soldier--a great, triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle." Well," L.M. Montgomery
38bddd4 Oh, sometimes, I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came. L.M. Montgomery
087fa43 Above all she wanted to make him speak. She felt instinctively that nothing in the world would punish him so much as to be tricked into speaking when he was determined not to. Suppose she got up and deliberately smashed that huge, hideous, old-fashioned vase on the table in the corner ... an ornate thing covered with wreaths of roses and leaves which it was most difficult to dust but which must be kept immaculately clean. Anne knew that the.. L.M. Montgomery
518e61f But she was still as fully determined as ever that she would not wear those abominable stockings to church. CHAPTER L.M. Montgomery
a357b4e I'm just tired of everything . . . even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes . . . echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking. L.M. Montgomery
c213405 The worst possible manager for a manse," said Miss Cornelia bitterly. "Mr. Meredith won't get any other housekeeper because he says it would hurt Aunt Martha's feelings. Anne dearie, believe me, the state of that manse is something terrible. Everything is thick with dust and nothing is ever in its place. And we had painted and papered it all so nice before they came." "There" L.M. Montgomery
3936d06 Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse. L.M. Montgomery
6bf4afa Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it. L.M. Montgomery
8878094 where to blow from next for sheer crazy delight L.M. Montgomery
32d3552 Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. L.M. Montgomery
c43cd7c Oh, Miss Shirley, can you smell the apple-blossom fragrance?" Having a nose, Anne could." L.M. Montgomery
0b6f212 If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think? Then friendship would be the most beautiful thing in the world. L.M. Montgomery
cb63a76 Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.' Isn't that worth learning, L.M. Montgomery
d82d541 do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? L.M. Montgomery
7adebc9 If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think? L.M. Montgomery
506a195 I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be. L.M. Montgomery
ba2bb80 The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me. L.M. Montgomery
80c5e0f Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life--the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world. L.M. Montgomery
bdaa224 splendid to think of all the things there are to find out L.M. Montgomery
fe954bc 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 L.M. Montgomery
386cb80 How beautiful the old Glen was, in its August ripeness, with its chain of bowery old homesteads, tilled meadows and quiet gardens. The western sky was like a great golden pearl. Far down the harbour was frosted with a dawning moonlight. The air was full of exquisite sounds--sleepy robin whistles, wonderful, mournful, soft murmurs of wind in the twilit trees, rustle of aspen poplars talking in silvery whispers and shaking their dainty, heart.. L.M. Montgomery
0598a47 There's one thing plain to be seen, Anne," said Marilla, "and that is that your fall off the Barry roof hasn't injured your tongue at all." L.M. Montgomery
e0126bb Non passa mai, per gli uomini e le nazioni, il tempo di rendersi ridicoli e venire alle mani. L.M. Montgomery
a0eb131 She looks exactly like a--like a gimlet." Marilla smothered a smile under the conviction that Anne must be reproved for such a speech. "A little girl like you should be ashamed of talking so about a lady and a stranger," she said severely. "Go back and sit down quietly and hold your tongue and behave as a good girl should." "I'll try to do and be anything you want me, if you'll only keep me," said Anne, returning meekly to her ottoman. When.. L.M. Montgomery
4e4e952 A country Sabbath is suggestive of rest and peace and quiet--sleepy blue skies, shadows golden and green, sunny fields, and the pink and snow of apple blossoms. June is at her height of radiant loveliness now. What a pity it is such a short time. L.M. Montgomery
342713f I wish I could like the baby a little bit. It would make things easier. But I don't. I've heard people say that when you took care of a baby you got fond of it--but you don't--I don't, anyway. L.M. Montgomery
ad361e3 Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world." Chapter XX." L.M. Montgomery
cf27cde And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places -- if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you. L.M. Montgomery
83967b3 You'll get so tired of Blair Water -- you'll know all the people in it -- what they are and can be -- it'll be like reading a book for the twentieth time. L.M. Montgomery
2af1537 I think you can always tell when a house has been loved. But it's been asleep for so long. And lonely. It always hurts me to see a house lonely. L.M. Montgomery
b8beffe I'm so different," sighed Hazel. It was really dreadful to be so different from other people . . . and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Hazel would not have been one of the common herd for anything . . . no matter what she suffered by reason of her differentness." L.M. Montgomery
33d90ad And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost. The idea! If they won't all the money we've been giving to Foreign Missions will be clean wasted, that's what! L.M. Montgomery
8cd2e33 It's all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen, and send missionaries to them. They're far away and we don't have to associate with them. But I don't want to have to sit in a pew with a hired boy. L.M. Montgomery
6490f2a It had been so ugly, and Walter hated ugliness. L.M. Montgomery
004b93e 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. L.M. Montgomery