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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEROnce you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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