To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
Kate Douglas WigginTags: naming
A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.
Kate Douglas WigginMost of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
Kate Douglas WigginPlease 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, gentle, nonsensical, shilly-shallying snow-storms; not the sort where the flakes float lazily down from the sky as if they didn't care whether they ever got here or not, and then melt away as soon as they touch the earth, but a regular business-like whizzing, whirring, blurring, cutting snow-storm, warranted to freeze and stay on!
Kate Douglas WigginTags: humor
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 WigginThere 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 WigginMiranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.
Kate Douglas WigginThe 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 you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.
Kate Douglas WigginTags: friends neighbors habits conduct
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast,
World, you are beautifully drest!
There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
Kate Douglas WigginTags: travel magic coming-home going-away
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