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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIn 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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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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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 sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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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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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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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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