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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERA good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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