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Great Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- 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.…
- The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable…
- Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step…
- When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
- All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She…
- It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland…
- All things great are wound up with all things little.
- 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…
- There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
- The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great,…
- I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It…
- I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
- [she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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