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"We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them."

"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."

"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."

"The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally."

"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."

"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."

"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."

"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
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"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."

"The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere."

"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."

"Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines."

"People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear."

"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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