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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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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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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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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 Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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