Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERNo one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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 world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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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 is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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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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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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