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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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Attention Organization Pay Trouble
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
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
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Life Myself Represent Understand
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Game Man Money
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Comfortable Home Journey Travel
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.
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Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
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
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
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Age Common Oneself Place Wonder
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
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
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Gold Happiness Moments Time
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
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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
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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Best Change Courage Honesty Reality Simplicity Wrong
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.
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Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
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
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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Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Need Wild
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
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
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.
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Deep End Heart Inspirational Land Travel Work Yourself
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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Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
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

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