Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERRemember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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