The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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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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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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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.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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