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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Believe Giving Return
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.
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Little Lonely Sometimes
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Imaginary Use World
Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Honeym Night Wine Wormwood
That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Animal Good Things Nature Spring
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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Ambition Anxiety Self
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Back Book Come Hate
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Look Pleasure World
It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Cruelty Kind Worst
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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Anger Children Deceitful
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Air Inspirational Mistake
All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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College Everywhere Lesson Life
Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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Jest Look Lost Sorter Wicked
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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Beautiful Inspiration Morning
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Being Goodness Montgomery Thankful
It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Gables Graduation Green World

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