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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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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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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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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 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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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