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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Fear Heart Help Limitation Ourselves
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
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
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Myself True
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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Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time
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
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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Advice Heart Human Light Live Person Thinking Way
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Game Man Money
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
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Life Lubrication Machine
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
Home is the nicest word there is.
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Home One Liner Word
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
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
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Greatness Loss Small
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Constant Friendship Hard Mindset Remember
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
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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Day Gold Water Wings
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
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
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
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Blind Eyes Worst
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

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