Life begins at eighty.
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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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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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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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