Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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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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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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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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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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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