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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.

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
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
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Animal Food Live Man See Wild
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Age Common Oneself Place Wonder
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Bad Beginning End Goodness
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Need Wild
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
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
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
Home is the nicest word there is.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Home One Liner Word
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Greatness Loss Small
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Gold Happiness Moments Time
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

God Himself Planning Wrong
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Myself Represent Understand
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Organization Pay Trouble
Let your joy scream across the pain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Joy Pain Scream Yourself

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