Maria Mitchell

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#grasp #growing #hand #large #louis

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#am #better #breathing #certainly #i

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#am #begin #colors #different #different colors

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#am #i #i am #just #me

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#early #enough #fast #had #hours

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

#ago #comet #computations #did #first

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

#any #been #better #catch #country

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#comet #find #i #know #little

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#all day #almost #am #day #fatigue

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. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#comet #cooper #elements #get #i