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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.
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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Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
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Be what you would seem to be.
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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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The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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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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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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Artists are always young.
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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 life of the soul is incalculable.
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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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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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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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
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It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
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When the intellect and affections are in harmony when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
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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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