Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
MARGARET FULLEROnly the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.
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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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Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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