When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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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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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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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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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