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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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