That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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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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Every 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.
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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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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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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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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