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1. "Never bet your money on another man's game." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. "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
3. "We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. "We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. "This, is now." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
6. "A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
7. "Roma tidaklah dibangun dalam waktu sehari. Begitu juga sebuah jalan kereta api. Atau hal-hal lain yang menyenangkan dalam hidup ini. - Charles Ingalls" ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
8. "Every war is more or less a woman's war." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
9. "Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)" ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
10. "Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end, while perhaps if we allowed ourselves more idle time we would conserve our nervous strength and health to more than the value the work we could accomplish by emulating at all times the little busy bee. I once knew a woman, not very strong, who to the wonder of her friends went through a time of extraordinary hard work without any ill effects. I asked her for her secret and she told me that she was able to keep her health, under the strain, because she took 20 minutes, of each day in which to absolutely relax both mind and body. She did not even "set and think." She lay at full length, every muscle and nerve relaxed and her mind as quiet as her body. This always relieved the strain and renewed her strength." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
11. "As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
12. "There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
13. "Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
14. "Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
15. "Home is the nicest word there is." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
16. "So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
17. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
18. "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
19. "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
20. "Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
21. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
22. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
23. "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
24. "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
25. "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
26. "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
27. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
28. "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
29. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
30. "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
31. "No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
32. "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
33. "These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
34. "Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
35. "There's no great loss without some small gain." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
36. "The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. "Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
38. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
39. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
40. "We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
41. "Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say." Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
42. "Then Pa looked straight at Laura and said, 'You girls keep away from the camp. When you go walking. don't go near where the men are working, and you be sure you're back here before they come in for the night. There's all kinds of rough men working on the grade and using rough language, and the less you see and hear of them the better. Now remember, Laura. And you too, Carrie.' Pa's face was very serious.'Yes, Pa' Laura promised, and Carrie almost whispered , 'Yes, Pa.' Carrie's eyes were large and frightened. She did not want to hear rough language, whatever rough language might be. Laura would have liked to hear some, just once, but of course she must obey Pa." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
43. "She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!" ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
44. "It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
45. "Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
46. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
47. "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." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
48. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
49. "As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that the things that are truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

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