Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWhen 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.
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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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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 sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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