The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere 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.
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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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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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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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