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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Life Lubrication Machine
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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God Himself Planning Wrong
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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Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Heart Life Lying Sweet
Home is the nicest word there is.
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Home One Liner Word
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
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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Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Need Wild
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Funny Literature Stupidity Word
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Greatness Loss Small
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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Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
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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Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
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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Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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Advice Heart Human Light Live Person Thinking Way
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Count Oneself Work
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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Build Exception Father Home Need Ourselves
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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Life Love Nature Simplicity Sweet Worth
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Life Myself Represent Understand
Life begins at eighty.
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Beginning Deep Life One Liner Perspective
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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Beginning Death Easy
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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Need Shine Stone
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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Enough Hard Work Myself People
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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Beautiful Life Live Moments True Way
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Achievement Dreams Greatness Inspirational Motivational
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way

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