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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

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enjoy Live People Time Work
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
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Achievement Dreams Greatness Inspirational Motivational
When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Laughter Remember Smile Tears Yourself
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enough Hard Work Myself People
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
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
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Gold Water Wings

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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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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