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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
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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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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
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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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Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.
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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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Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope and I take it to my breast.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
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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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Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
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The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
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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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The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
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A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.
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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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