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.
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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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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