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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERSuffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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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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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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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.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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