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Is anyone really happy in this mad world?
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
From Anne of the Island
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When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years and years ... and not have to go on pretending to be bright and happy and quite, quite satisfied.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Talk was a commonplace that did not belong to this enchanted time and place. A big moon was rising over the Cove. The wind rustled in the dune grasses and the waves washed softly on the shore.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Sometimes you laughed just because you felt like laughing. Sometimes because other people laughed and you felt you ought to join in.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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It is so long since I have had a chance to live a day. You know we don’t live at Ashburn ... we just exist.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
From The Blue Castle
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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
From Anne of Avonlea
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
From Anne of the Island
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Nowadays you’ve got to stalk your man.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.
From The Blue Castle
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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 be begun here on earth.
From Anne of the Island
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The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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There were times it made one happy to be a fool. It made you feel that you were driving straight back into the past.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
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After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
From Anne of Avonlea
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
From Anne of Green Gables
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
From Anne of Green Gables
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But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.
"I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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Is anyone really happy in this mad world?
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
From Anne of the Island
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When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years and years ... and not have to go on pretending to be bright and happy and quite, quite satisfied.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Talk was a commonplace that did not belong to this enchanted time and place. A big moon was rising over the Cove. The wind rustled in the dune grasses and the waves washed softly on the shore.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Sometimes you laughed just because you felt like laughing. Sometimes because other people laughed and you felt you ought to join in.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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It is so long since I have had a chance to live a day. You know we don’t live at Ashburn ... we just exist.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
From The Blue Castle
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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
From Anne of Avonlea
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
From Anne of the Island
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Nowadays you’ve got to stalk your man.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.
From The Blue Castle
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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 be begun here on earth.
From Anne of the Island
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The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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There were times it made one happy to be a fool. It made you feel that you were driving straight back into the past.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
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After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
From Anne of Avonlea
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
From Anne of Green Gables
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
From Anne of Green Gables
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But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.
"I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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Is anyone really happy in this mad world?
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
From Anne of the Island
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When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years and years ... and not have to go on pretending to be bright and happy and quite, quite satisfied.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Talk was a commonplace that did not belong to this enchanted time and place. A big moon was rising over the Cove. The wind rustled in the dune grasses and the waves washed softly on the shore.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Sometimes you laughed just because you felt like laughing. Sometimes because other people laughed and you felt you ought to join in.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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It is so long since I have had a chance to live a day. You know we don’t live at Ashburn ... we just exist.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
From The Blue Castle
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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
From Anne of Avonlea
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
From Anne of the Island
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Nowadays you’ve got to stalk your man.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.
From The Blue Castle
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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 be begun here on earth.
From Anne of the Island
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The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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There were times it made one happy to be a fool. It made you feel that you were driving straight back into the past.
From The Blythes Are Quoted
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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
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After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
From Anne of Avonlea
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
From Anne of Green Gables
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
From Anne of Green Gables
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But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.
"I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy.
From Anne's House of Dreams
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