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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERLet’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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