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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Blind Eyes Worst
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.
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Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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.
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Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Need Shine Stone
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Game Man Money
When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Education Live Object
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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God Himself Planning Wrong
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 sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Heart Life Lying Sweet

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

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