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 WILDERThe uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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 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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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