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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

PARTly in consequence of her Quaker training, and partly from her own
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It is as it should be--Memory is the police-officer of the universe.' 'Architects say that the arch never rests, and so the past never rests.' (Was it, never sleeps ?) 'When I talk with my friend who is a genealogist, I feel that I am talking with a ghost.' "The little vestry, fitted perhaps for a hundred people, was packed with two hundred,--all people of an intellectual cast of face,--and the attention was intense.

The thermometer was ninety in the shade! "I did not speak to Mr.Emerson; I felt that I must not give him a bit of extra fatigue.
"July 12, 1880.

The school of philosophy has built a shanty for its meetings, but it is a shanty to be proud of, for it is exactly adapted to its needs.

It is a long but not low building, entirely without finish, but water-tight.

A porch for entrance, and a recess similar at the opposite end, which makes the place for the speakers.


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