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The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.
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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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But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.
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She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
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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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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?
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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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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
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Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed....
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I couldn't live where there were no trees—something vital in me would starve.
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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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I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.
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I must be getting old... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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Some nights are like honey — and some like wine — and some like wormwood.
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.
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Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
November 30, 1874
Died:
April 24, 1942
(aged 67)
Bio:
L.M. Montgomery was the pen name of Lucy Maud Montgomery, a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success.
Known for:
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Anne of the Island (1915)
Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
Emily of New Moon (1923)
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
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