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 WILDERThe sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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