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Maria Mitchell Quotes
A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
Even astronomers who are as well cared for as are those of Cambridge have their annoyances, and even men as skilled as they are make blunders. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill to-day from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again to-night. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I never look upon the mass of girls going into our dining-room or chapel without feeling their nobility, the sovereignty of their pure spirit. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
Question everything. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
The love of ones own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! - Maria Mitchell Quotes
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