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Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Critic
Essayist
Feminist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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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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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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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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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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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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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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