In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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 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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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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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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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Life begins at eighty.
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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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