Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThese happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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 sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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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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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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 object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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