Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEREvery 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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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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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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