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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.

Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Critic
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Philosopher
Reporter
Translator
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Stand
Manna
Alone
Gather
Heaven
Drop
Every
Rising
Never
Desert
Would
Rise
Thinking
World
Sun

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