That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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Every 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.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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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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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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