I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
タグ: inspirational

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Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.
タグ: hope, despair
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
タグ: romance, love
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
タグ: hope, despair
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…
タグ: l-m-montgomery, books
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
タグ: books
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