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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.
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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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The life of the soul is incalculable.
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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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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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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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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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Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.
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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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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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Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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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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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
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I find no intellect comparable to my own
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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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Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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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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