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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEROur hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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 the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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