The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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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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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’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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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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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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