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161 " Life seems like a cup of glory held to my lips just now. But there must be some bitterness in it - there is in every cup. I shall taste mine some day. Well, I hope I shall be strong and brave to meet it. And I hope it won't be through my own fault that it will come. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
162 " There's always a piece of unfinished work left, but I suppose there is always someone to finish it. "
163 " Kittens HAVE to be drowned, I admit, or the world would be overrun. But no decent, grown-up cat should be done to death -- unless he sucks eggs. "
164 " 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. There, that's the first sensible thing I've ever said in my life. I wonder how I managed it? "
165 " There are lots of things that never go by rule,There’s a powerful pile o’ knowledgeThat you never get at college,There are heaps of things you never learn at school. "
166 " Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own peculiar sweetness. "
167 " Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of," laughed Anne. "Can you fancy them `globe-trotting' -- especially in those shawls and caps?""I suppose they'll take them off when they really begin to trot," said Priscilla, "but I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure... "
168 " There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves - so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which delight, and for which to be thankful. "
169 " I can never make up my mind about anything myself - I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decided to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do. "
170 " The woods were God's first temples," quoted Anne softly. "One can't help feeling reverent and adoring in such a place. I always feel so near Him when I walk among the pines. "
171 " It's the birthday of our happiness," said Anne softly. "
172 " Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be the same with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different—something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must begin here on earth. "
173 " I do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? When the east wind blows I always think of sorrowful rain on the eaves and sad waves on a gray shore. When I get old I shall have rheumatism when the wind is east. "
174 " home” must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars. "
175 " I don't feel like tame domestic joys today. I want to feel alone and free and wild. "
176 " Never write a line you would be ashamed to read at your own funeral. "
177 " Os pequenos prazeres da vida, doces e excelentes em seu momento, não deveriam ser a finalidade de toda a existência. Os mandamentos divinos deveriam ser buscados e seguidos; a vida celestial deveria começar aqui na Terra. "