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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERNo rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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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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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 understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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