No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEREvery 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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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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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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