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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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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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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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