Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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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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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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