No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWild 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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.
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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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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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