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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIf 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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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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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.
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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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