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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....
• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
  The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....
• When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
  -- Maria Mitchell...
• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)...
• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows up to othe
  but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it....
• The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it Capitalism
  call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it....
• The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it Capitalism
  call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it....
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  -- Maria Mitchell...