Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find. Laura Ingalls Wilder More Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder More Quotes From Laura Ingalls Wilder No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle. Laura Ingalls Wilder rich eye men If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short. Laura Ingalls Wilder family house home The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west. Laura Ingalls Wilder space spring years She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles! Laura Ingalls Wilder hook hammers rain There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. Laura Ingalls Wilder sweat bread men The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. Laura Ingalls Wilder sweetness-of-life heart lying 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. Laura Ingalls Wilder eye beautiful thinking So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. Laura Ingalls Wilder house play two 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 cousin horse easter Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind. Laura Ingalls Wilder fever blind eye Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery. Laura Ingalls Wilder machinery oil doe We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles. Laura Ingalls Wilder pebbles crow needs 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 Wilder passion long years That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next. Laura Ingalls Wilder next age wonder I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love. Laura Ingalls Wilder In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. Laura Ingalls Wilder grass winter long country The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road. Laura Ingalls Wilder road day surprise path I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play! Laura Ingalls Wilder man busy work love Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay. Laura Ingalls Wilder me man care believe
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