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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
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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Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
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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Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
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
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
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
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Attention Organization Pay Trouble
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
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
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Choice Dangerous Need Sadness Yourself
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time
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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Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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Deep End Heart Inspirational Land Travel Work Yourself
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Count Oneself Work
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Enough Hard Work Myself People
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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Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Life Myself Represent Understand
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
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
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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God Himself Planning Wrong
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
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
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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Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Blind Eyes Worst
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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Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
Let your joy scream across the pain.
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Joy Pain Scream Yourself

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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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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