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But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice.

Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it.

It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes--what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows--what new landscapes--what new beauties--what curves and hills and valleys further on.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been.

At first sight there is something surprising in this strange unrest of so many happy men, restless in the midst of abundance.

In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.

At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not.

Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding.

Little by little, through patience and long-suffering, thou shalt conquer by the help of God, rather than by violence and thine own strength of will.

Now dost thou resolve to avoid a fault, and within an hour thou behavest thyself as if thou hadst never resolved at all.

Alas, we have known Times call loudly enough for their great man; but not find him when they called!