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" Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp. "
West
Growing
Hand
" As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them. "
Know
General
People
" A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. "
Today
Boy
Me
" Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. "
Only
Bright
Universe
" Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. "
Praise
Which
God
" I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian. "
Life
Always
Better
" I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. "
Colors
Stars
New
" I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. "
Just
Trying
Summer
" 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. "
Early
Love
Life
" 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. "
Work
Gone
Kind
" I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. "
Know
Find
Matter
" 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. "
Work
Day
Work Hard
" 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. "
My Own
Looking
Rely
" I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. "
Gentleman
Travel
Courage
" I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. "
Society
Only
Needle
" People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. "
People
Learn
Head
" Question everything. "
Everything
Question
" Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. "
You
Tomorrow
Die
" The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not. "
Me
Said
Life
" The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study. "
Right
Greatest
Give
" There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. "
Like
Cosmetic
Beauty
" The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. "
Character
Worth
More
" The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! "
Learning
Power
Soul
" To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. "
Thought
Worth
Book
" We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. "
Science
Beauty
Mathematics
" 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. "
Desire
Hunger
Seeing
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