Quote by Maria Mitchell
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. – 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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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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For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced – in his smallness of mind – that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone – against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts – that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d. – Meir Kahane

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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. – Theodor Adorno

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. – Quintilian

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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. – Calvin Coolidge

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There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. – Ben Hecht

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