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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.

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
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
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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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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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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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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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