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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
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
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Artists are always young.
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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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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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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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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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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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
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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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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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The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
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