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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
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The life of the soul is incalculable.
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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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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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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
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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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... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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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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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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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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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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Be what you would seem to be.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
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I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
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I find no intellect comparable to my own
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