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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.

Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Critic
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Philosopher
Reporter
Translator
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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