These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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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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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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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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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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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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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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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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