Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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