Best Quotes by Maria Mitchell (Top 9)
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell
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Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.
Maria Mitchell
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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 curtain that hides the infinite from us.
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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.
Maria Mitchell
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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 our own weakness, however small we may be.
Maria Mitchell
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Maria Mitchell
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Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell