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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.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

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.

Some day the world will understand that, and the little oases on the windy tops of hills will harbor for healing its ailing, house-weary broods.

Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

There is nothing to which nature seems so much to have inclined us, as to society

We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another

It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.

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.

When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.