Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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There 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.
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