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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Myself True
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Age Common Oneself Place Wonder
There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
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Attention Organization Pay Trouble
Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Gold Happiness Moments Time
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Choice Dangerous Need Sadness Yourself
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Education Live Object

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