We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERCourage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Life begins at eighty.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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