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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
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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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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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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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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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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 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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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There's no great loss without some small gain.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste 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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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