Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, With the wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest!” — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“[Julia Carey] had never, even when very young, experienced a desire to sit at the feet of superior wisdom, always greatly preferring a chair… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!… Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated with it… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk? — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
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