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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
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Feminist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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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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I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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 only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
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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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I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
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