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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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 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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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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