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... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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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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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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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 civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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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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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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