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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
Critic
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Philosopher
Reporter
Translator
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Tend
Institutions
Society
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Men
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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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 use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!
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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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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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A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
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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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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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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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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
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