To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency. - Maria Mitchell
I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.
- Maria Mitchell
Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines. - Maria Mitchell
Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. - Maria Mitchell
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" … - Maria Mitchell
In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" …
For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" B… - Maria Mitchell
For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" B…
Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than… - Maria Mitchell
Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than…
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the c… - Maria Mitchell
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the c…
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests. - Maria Mitchell
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be? - Maria Mitchell
No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
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