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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEREvery 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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