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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.
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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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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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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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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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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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.
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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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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
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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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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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