It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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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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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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