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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
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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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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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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