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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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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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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 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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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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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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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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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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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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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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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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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The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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