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 WILDERAll 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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