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.
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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Life begins at eighty.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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