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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Need Wild
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
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
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
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
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
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Comfortable Home Journey Travel
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Count Oneself Work
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 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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Animal Food Live Man See Wild
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
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Simplicity Vice Virtue Work

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

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