There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.
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.
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.
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" …
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…
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?
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. - Maria Mitchell
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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…
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