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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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
Writer
Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
Kindness
Courage
Needed
Truth
Always
Helpfulness
Loyalty
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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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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's no great loss without some small gain.
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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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Never bet your money on another man's game.
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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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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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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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