Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes - Page 2

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• All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Truth, Literature, Whole

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Family, Home, Feelings

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

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  Order, Absence, Enjoy

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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  Thinking, Ideas, Dignity

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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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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  Change, Heart, Land

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• There's no great loss without some small gain.

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  Loss, Gains, Prairie

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1971). “The first four years”

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• When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

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  Lonely, Sleep, Wind

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2003). “Little House in the Big Woods”, HarperCollins

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• 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 Wilder

  Mind, Battle, Life Is

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1969). “Little Town on the Prairie”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

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  Education, Fit, Folks

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

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  Strong, Fighting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group

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• The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

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  Mother, Memories, World

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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  Lying, Heart, Sweetness Of Life

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

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  Character, Garden, Thinking

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

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  Age, Next, Wonder

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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  Cheerful, Brightness, Purses

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Let your joy scream across the pain.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Pain, Joy, Scream

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• The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Stupid, Spelling, Little House On The Prairie

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

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  Christmas, Xmas, Memories

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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  Believe, Thinking, Simplicity

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

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  Light, Judging, Mind

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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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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  Thinking, Two, Advice

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life begins at eighty.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Age, Eighty

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• We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

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  Future, Age, Use

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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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  Tables And Chairs, House, Bed

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

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  Weed, Spring, Fighting

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”

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