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 WILDERTact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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