American - Scientist | August 1, 1818 - June 28, 1889
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
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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.
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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.
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I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
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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.
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It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
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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.
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We travel to learn; and 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.
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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.
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