Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes

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Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
Her life had not been pressed down full to the brim of pleasures, and she had a sort of distrust of joy in the bud. Not until she saw it in full radiance of bloom did she dare embrace it.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
You allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard.

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'Come close! Look at mother! Is she better — or is she dead?'... 'She is better!' he said gently, 'and she is dead.'

Kate Douglas Wiggin
To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book... I have thoughts that I never can use unless I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
You can never prove God; you can only find Him!

Kate Douglas Wiggin
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

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If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

Kate Douglas Wiggin
She passed in only two subjects... intending to let the stream of education play gently over her mental surfaces and not get any wetter than she could help.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

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If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
The habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

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Punctuality is a praiseworthy virtue enough, but as the years went on, Mrs. Todd blew her breakfast horn at so early an hour that the neighbors were in some doubt as to whether it might not herald the supper of the day before. They also predicted that she would have her funeral before she was fairly dead.

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Aunt Celia is one of those persons who are born to command, and when they are thrown in contact with those who are born to be commanded all goes as merry as a marriage bell; otherwise not.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
We had the wrath of God four times in sermons this last summer, but God cannot be angry all the time, — nobody could, especially in summer.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
From her earliest childhood words had always been to her what dolls and toys are to other children.... a beautiful word or sentence had the same effect upon her imagination as a fragrant nosegay, a strain of music, or a brilliant sunset.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
When Riverboro fell into a habit of thought or speech, it saw no reason for falling out of it; at any rate, in the same century.

Kate Douglas Wiggin
There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches noon. Under this spell one's mind is braced, one's spirit recreated; one is ready for any adventure, even if it only be the doing of the next distasteful task light-heartedly.

Kate Douglas Wiggin