Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThese 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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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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Life begins at eighty.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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