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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
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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When the intellect and affections are in harmony when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
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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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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
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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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Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.
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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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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.
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I find no intellect comparable to my own
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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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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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In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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