Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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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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