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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERCourage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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 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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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