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Quotation by Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards 

As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards by Carolin...The Outlook magazine (April 24, 1897)

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There are women in middle life, whose days are crowded with practical duties, physical strain, and moral responsibility ... they fail to see that some use of the mind, in solid reading or in study, would refresh them by its contrast with carking cares, and would prepare interest and pleasure for their later years. Such women often sink into depression, as their cares fall away from them, and many even become insane. They are mentally starved to death.

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911), U.S. chemist and educator. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt (1912). 

Written in the 1860s.

When it's over, I want to say: All my life, I was a bride married to amazement.

I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."

--Mary Oliver

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there  is of you.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. Jean Jacques Rousseau 

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. Harry Houdini 

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. Van Morrison

Let your performance do the thinking. Charlotte Bronte

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. Edward Gibbon 

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. Mae West