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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Reporter
Teacher
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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More quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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There's no great loss without some small gain.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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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She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went they ended in nothing at all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
