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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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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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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After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
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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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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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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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Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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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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Be what you would seem to be.
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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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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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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
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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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In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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