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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThese happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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