There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERNever bet your money on another man’s game.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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 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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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