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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
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
Helpfulness
Loyalty
Kindness
Courage
Needed
Truth
Always
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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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Never bet your money on another man's game.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful to make the most of what we have to be happy with simple pleasures and have courage when things go wrong.
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
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