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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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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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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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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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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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.
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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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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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Artists are always young.
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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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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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