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 WILDERMany a good beginning makes a bad ending.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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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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.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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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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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.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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