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.
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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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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 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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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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