Margaret Fuller Quotes
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
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Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
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What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.
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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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Be what you would seem to be.
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there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.
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With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!
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Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
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Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
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Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
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The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
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In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
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Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.
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The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
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If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.
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I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.
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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
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I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.
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For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
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