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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERSome old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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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 nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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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 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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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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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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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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