If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys. Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes From Lucy Maud Montgomery Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading. Lucy Maud Montgomery evil fear world Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. Lucy Maud Montgomery wickedness pity weakness My pen shall heal, not hurt. Lucy Maud Montgomery pens heal hurt Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity. Lucy Maud Montgomery deformity terrible secret Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while. Lucy Maud Montgomery heart littles looks All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves Lucy Maud Montgomery classic dresses want And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you. Lucy Maud Montgomery tonight moon thinking Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things. Lucy Maud Montgomery ankles broken looks Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. Lucy Maud Montgomery spirit world thinking One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once. Lucy Maud Montgomery habit girl littles You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. Lucy Maud Montgomery safe Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? Lucy Maud Montgomery doe men thinking When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame. Lucy Maud Montgomery paper names writing I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school. Lucy Maud Montgomery slate broke school People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't. Lucy Maud Montgomery tone littles people In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well Lucy Maud Montgomery aim wells A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge. Lucy Maud Montgomery grudge favors long The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. Lucy Maud Montgomery growth body soul 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. Lucy Maud Montgomery stars dream lying I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then. Lucy Maud Montgomery smell flower dark