In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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