Kate Douglas Wiggin Short Quotes

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You can never prove God; you can only find Him!

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Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

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The snows of seventy winters powder his hair and beard.

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

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There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

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

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

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They had settled down and invited fate to do its worst, an invitation which was promptly accepted.

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

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She... kind o' heaves benefits at your head, same's she would bricks; but they're benefits just the same.

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

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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.

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Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

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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.

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You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

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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.'

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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.

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Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

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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.

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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.

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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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She had been born with the bit in her teeth. Jerry had never done anything he wanted to since he had married her, and he hadn't really wanted to do that.

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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.

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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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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.

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