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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.
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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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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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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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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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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She thought to herself, This is now. She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
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There's no great loss without some small gain.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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