Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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