No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIf 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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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 world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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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 order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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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 only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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