Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Life begins at eighty.
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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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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 sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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 world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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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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