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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Critic
Essayist
Feminist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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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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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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
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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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... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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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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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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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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Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.
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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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