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Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder (/ˈɪŋɡəlz/; February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books released from 1932 to 1943 which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. . . . The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

Doors, Easily, Gun, Home, Hooks

The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

Strong, Fighting, Rivers, Onward, Freely, People

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

Attention, Organization, Paying, Thing, Trouble

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

Bears, Constant, Friend, Mind, Remember

Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul-satisfying, while a bird's song will set the steps to music all day long.

Intended, Long, Simply, Song, Sunrise, Sunset

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.

Dignity, Good, Ideas, Thinking, Tiresome

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

Eye, Men, Rich, Walk

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.

Crowds, Opportunity, Possible, Think, Thinking, Way

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

Family, Home, Feelings, Sort, Composite

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.

Family, Home, House, Make, Members, Short

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.

Country, Hunting, West, Worn, Years

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.

Beauty, Change, Nearly, Permitting, Wind, Work

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.

Coal, Ems, Fast, Railroads, Stoves, Trouble

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

Bread, Man, Men, Sweat

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

Left, Lonesome, Memories, Mother, World

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.

Lonely, Sleep, Wind, Music, Firelight

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

Cry, Dishonesty, Stand, Stop, Thieves

We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.

Advice, Course, Lives, Person, Thinking, Two

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.

Charles, Gone, Said, Time, Whole, Years

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

Absence, Enjoy, Order, Times

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