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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.
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
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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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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If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
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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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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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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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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
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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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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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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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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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