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.
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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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