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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERTact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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Our 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.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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