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Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
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Wisconsin
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Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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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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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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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful to make the most of what we have to be happy with simple pleasures and have courage when things go wrong.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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