Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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