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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERRemember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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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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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 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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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