The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERLet your joy scream across the pain.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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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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Let’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.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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