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We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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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 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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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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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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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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