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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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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."
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"Nothing can come of nothing."
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
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"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
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"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."
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"Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind."
Tragedy
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
Life
"They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now."
Now
"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."
Uncertainty
"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."
Illness
"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."
Life
"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."
Possession
"The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road."
Change
"In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high."
Nation
"Home is the nicest word there is."
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