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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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
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
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Bad Beginning End Goodness
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.
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Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Blind Eyes Worst
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.
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Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Game Man Money
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Achievement Dreams Greatness Inspirational Motivational
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Need Wild
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Gold Water Wings
This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
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.
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Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

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