There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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 sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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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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