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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
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
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
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 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
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.
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Beautiful Eyes Herself Thinking
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
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
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Choice Dangerous Need Sadness 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
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
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Myself True
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Comfortable Home Journey Travel
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Fear Heart Help Limitation Ourselves
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Greatness Loss Small
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet

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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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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