Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYIt 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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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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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back 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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY