The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERSuffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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