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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Life begins at eighty.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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