Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERPeople used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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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