We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERTact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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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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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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