There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Life begins at eighty.
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