We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYTomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in 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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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