Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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