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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
Journalist
Philosopher
Reporter
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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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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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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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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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.
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A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated it is a maxim.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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Artists are always young.
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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
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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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