"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

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“I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'”
“It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.199, Univ of California Press
“In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.”
“One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.”
“Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!”
“Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.”
“A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?”
“Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.”

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