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Be what you would seem to be.

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
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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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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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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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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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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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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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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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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... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
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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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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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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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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 Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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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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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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