We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYmost people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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