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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.
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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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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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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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In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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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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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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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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Artists are always young.
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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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!
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Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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