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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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Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
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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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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 civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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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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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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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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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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All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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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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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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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
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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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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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