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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 is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice."
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"You may not be able to do anything about how you feel, but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not...."
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"Don't be your own devil."
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"Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!"
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"When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself."
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"Control your anger, be calm."
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"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
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"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."
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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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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"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
"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all."
Laughter
"Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country."
Nation
"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."
People
"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
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
Life
"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
"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."
Attention
"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."
Work
"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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