That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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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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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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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.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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 object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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.
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