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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.
Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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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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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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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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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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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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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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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
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I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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