Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes

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• Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the…
• Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
• Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek,…
• There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.
• A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.
• To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
• If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers,…
• 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…
• 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,…
• Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.
• There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

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