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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

History Astronomy Receding Horizons
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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Science Human activity Progressive Body
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Observations always involve theory.

Observation Involve theory
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Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Astronomy Ministry Go Without call
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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Great spiral Radial velocities Motion
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I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Second Astronomy Mattered
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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

Greatest block Women's emancipation Church
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The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

Think Present condition Woman Oppressed
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Conservative friend Spectacle World
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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

Strongest reason Woman Higher education
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Strengthens Judgement Conscience Individual responsibility
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Moment Fear Opinions Hesitate
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Bible Church Stumbling block
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Laws Man Obey Contempt
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Always busy Chief reason Well
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Grand History Morals Inculcated
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Woman's discontent Increases Exact proportion Development
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I shall not grow conservative with age.

Grow Conservative Age
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Best protection Woman Courage
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Prolonged slavery Darkest page Human history
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Complete Despotism Smoothly Move
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Obstacle Education Eyes
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Religious superstitions Bondage Adverse influence
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Church teaching Women Last degree
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Memory Suffering Shadowing Young soul
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Immutable law Universe Impressive
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

Words Describe Indignation Woman
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Sometimes Likes Foolish people Wisdom
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

Easy Judge rightly Judging wrongly
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I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me

Despise me Understand me
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There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
Wounded affection Poignancy Anger
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Wise parent Desire Friend Advisor
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Reason Always Means Someone else
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But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Future Met Stern Iron
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But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Cloud Never comes Horizon Watch
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Loyalty Obedience Wisdom Arbitrary power
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Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

Come Poor Little heart Brave
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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

Loves me Care for me Mother
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Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

Similarity Opinion Perfection love
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I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

Self indulgent Worthy Hatred
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I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

Three lilies Valley gathered Person
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I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

Wish God Ask him Bless
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Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

Every mile Redolent Associations Missed
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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafless - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
Trees Gorgeous Autumnal leafless
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One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
One May Clogged Honey
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Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection, to be one that went low—deep down.

Oh dear Loved Difference Reflection
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Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.

Love me Sweet Never Be better
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But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.

Mind Long directed Rigid Unable
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All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind—it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement

Thought Mind Harbour Encouragement
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. . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Seemed Prayed God Joy
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