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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
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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 Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
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