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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
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Feminist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope and I take it to my breast.
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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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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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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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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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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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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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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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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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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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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