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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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Need Shine Stone
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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Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
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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Life Love Nature Simplicity Sweet Worth
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Life Lubrication Machine
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Bad Beginning End Goodness
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Gold Happiness Moments Time
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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Build Exception Father Home Need Ourselves
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
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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Beginning Death Easy
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Myself True
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Life Myself Represent Understand
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.
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Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
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.
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Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Eyes Man Rich Walk

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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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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