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Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope and I take it to my breast.
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
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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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In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
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When the intellect and affections are in harmony when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
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A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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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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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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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.
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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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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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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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It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
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The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
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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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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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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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