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Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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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.
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But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
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What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.
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Artists are always young.
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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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A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
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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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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.
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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
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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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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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