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I will try, Mother, I truly will. But you must help me, remind me, and keep me from flying out.

It’s highly virtuous to say we’ll be good, but we can’t do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way.

Write something for us, and never mind the rest of the world. Try it, dear. I’m sure it would do you good, and please us very much.

All sorts of mornings are interesting, don’t you think? You don’t know what’s going to happen through the day, and there’s so much scope for imagination.

I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don’t make, although I might.

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.

Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed.

To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.

TIME is a Master Worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat; equalizes the inequalities, and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing ‘impossible’ with time!

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.

No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.

Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

It also makes for contentedness, when things happen against our wish, not to overlook our many advantages and comforts, but by looking at both good and bad to feel that the good preponderate.

Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.

Let it be enough for faith, that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection.

hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which, upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits?

In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.