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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWhen 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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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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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 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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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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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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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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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