That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Life begins at eighty.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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