This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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