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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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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 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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