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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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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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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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