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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERMany a good beginning makes a bad ending.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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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 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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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