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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERNo rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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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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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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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.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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