Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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 days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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