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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
Autobiographer
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Feminist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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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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... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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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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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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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
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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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Be what you would seem to be.
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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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
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But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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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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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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