The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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 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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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Life begins at eighty.
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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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