No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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 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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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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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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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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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