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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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