Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes - Page 4

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• Never bet your money on another man's game.

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  Men, Games, Another Man

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• Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

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  Oil, Doe, Machinery

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

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  Naughty, Easier, Sooner Or Later

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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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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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  Country, Hunting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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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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  Suits, Fixed, Ifs

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

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  Rain, Hammers, Hook

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1973). “On the Banks of Plum Creek”, Turtleback

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• 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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  Change, Beauty, Work

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

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  Uplifting, Heart, Fearless

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

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  Baby, Grace, Fever

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

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  Eye, Men, Rich

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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.

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  Easter, Cousin, Horse

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

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• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

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  Girl, Baby, Grandmother

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

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  Long, Different, Woods

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

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• 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.

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  Animal, Men, Feds

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “Little house on the prairie”, Scholastic

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• 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.

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  Spring, Years, Space

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

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  Eye, Fever, Blind

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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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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  Passion, Years, Long

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2006). “Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume Three: As Told By Her Family, Friends, and Neighbors”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

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  Play, Two, House

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• [On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

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  Thieves, Dishonesty, Cry

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

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