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Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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Artists are always young.
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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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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After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
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Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.
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A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
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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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All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
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But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
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Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
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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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Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated it is a maxim.
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
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