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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
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 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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The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated it is a maxim.
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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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I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
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Be what you would seem to be.
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I find no intellect comparable to my own
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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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 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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
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Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
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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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The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
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Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.
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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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