“Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) Canadian fiction writer
Source: Rainbow Valley (1919), Ch. 13
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Context: Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It’s there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
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Serpens, sitis, ardor harenae
dulcia virtuti; gaudet patientia duris;
laetius est, quotiens magno sibi constat, honestum.
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Book IX, line 402 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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