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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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It 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.
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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Life begins at eighty.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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