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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
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With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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The life of the soul is incalculable.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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