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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERLet your joy scream across the pain.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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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.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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