No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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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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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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Her 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.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Life begins at eighty.
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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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