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I find no intellect comparable to my own

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
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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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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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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
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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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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
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The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
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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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Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
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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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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
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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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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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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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The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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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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