Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
MARGARET FULLERMan tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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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