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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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 world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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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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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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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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