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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
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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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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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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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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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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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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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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