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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

Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
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
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Home One Liner Word
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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Heart Life Lying Sweet
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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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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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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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Fear Heart Help Limitation Ourselves
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
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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Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal

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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