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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
Autobiographer
Critic
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Philosopher
Reporter
Translator
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Literature
Adequately
Life
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Thought
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Neither
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Great
Ordinary
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Beauty

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Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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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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It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
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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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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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 now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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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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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Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
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