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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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
Reporter
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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There's no great loss without some small gain.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
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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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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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