The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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 days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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