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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.
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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Feminist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
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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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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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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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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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Be what you would seem to be.
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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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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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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
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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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There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.
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Artists are always young.
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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