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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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 uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Life begins at eighty.
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER