All Maria Mitchell Quotes
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.
Maria Mitchell
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Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and to-day a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.
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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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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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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 am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
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Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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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.
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
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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.
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I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
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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.
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