Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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 heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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