There’s no great loss without some small gain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere 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.
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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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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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 object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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 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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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