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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIn order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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Life begins at eighty.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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