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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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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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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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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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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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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I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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Be what you would seem to be.
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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.
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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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The life of the soul is incalculable.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
Margaret Fuller
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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A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
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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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