We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERHer blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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