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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
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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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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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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
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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 are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.
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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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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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Be what you would seem to be.
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Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
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I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.
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