The wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERFar worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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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.
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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