Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Life begins at eighty.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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.
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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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