There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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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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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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Life begins at eighty.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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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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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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