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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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
Teacher
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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Overworked
Shortcomings
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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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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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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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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'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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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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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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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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There's no great loss without some small gain.
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