Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIn 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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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.
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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.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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