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 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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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