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• The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Eye, Embroidery

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• 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

  Said, Has Beens, Industrious

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

  Maria Mitchell

  Love, Learning, Heart

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

  Maria Mitchell

  Trying, Littles, Matter

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

  Maria Mitchell

  Halloween

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

  Maria Mitchell

  Hard Work, Mean, Night

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• I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

  Maria Mitchell

  Appreciate, Born, Instance

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

  Maria Mitchell

  Girl, Giving, Closets

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

  Maria Mitchell

  Travel, Stars, Acquisition

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

  Maria Mitchell

  Soul, World, Broads

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• 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

  Travel, Men, Two

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• Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

  Maria Mitchell

  Brother, Father, Men

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

  Maria Mitchell

  Sex, Vanity, Flattery

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

  Maria Mitchell

  Book, People, Want

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• The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

  Maria Mitchell

  Character, Safety, Southern

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• 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

  Boys, Journey, Please Me

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

  Maria Mitchell

  Sacrifice, Ties, Affection

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Color, Space

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

  Maria Mitchell

  Air, Breathing, Wander

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

  Maria Mitchell

  Hiv, Aids Day, Individual

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

  Maria Mitchell

  Blue, Sky, Cottages

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• 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

  Rely Upon, Elements, Saws

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

  Maria Mitchell

  Strong, Hands, Growing

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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