“There is a God, and he is good, I say to myself. I try to increase my trust in this, my only article of creed.”

—  Maria Mitchell

Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10202/pg10202.html (1896).

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