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Life begins at eighty.
Home is the nicest word there is.
Let your joy scream across the pain.
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
Never bet your money on another man's game.
There's no great loss without some small gain.
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.
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.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.