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There's no great loss without some small gain.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
Autobiographer
Journalist
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went they ended in nothing at all.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Ma sighed gently and said, A whole year gone, Charles. But Pa answered, cheerfully: What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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