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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Start Time Wait
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Gold Water Wings
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Advice Heart Human Light Live Person Thinking Way
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Life Lubrication Machine
Life begins at eighty.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Deep Life One Liner Perspective
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
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 WILDER

Beautiful Eyes Herself Thinking
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Need Shine Stone
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Deep End Heart Inspirational Land Travel Work Yourself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Believe Direction Happiness Personal Revolution Simplicity Thinking

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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