The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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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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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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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.
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