Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
sorry new-years-resolution trying
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. With them it's grand and great.
positive encouraging uplifting
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
queens lying believe
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
stars twilight night
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
men aggravating
There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.
looks said pointing
Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.
nice sorrow imagine
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
thinking interesting talking-too-much
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.
girl sea vision
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.
race knows
We belong to the race that knows Joseph
crazy sound emotion
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.
spring world good-things
That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
worry ifs seems
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
knowing wicked easy
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?