We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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