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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.

Margaret Fuller

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLER

Barrier Justice Men Sea
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Loneliness Mistake Mountain
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Flower Light Lying
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
MARGARET FULLER

Children Difference Home
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER

Difference Diversity Key
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
MARGARET FULLER

Dream Reality Wake
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
MARGARET FULLER

Country Desire People Realize
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
MARGARET FULLER

Connection Men Science
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Art Beauty Interest
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
MARGARET FULLER

Education Knives Training
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLER

Justice Men Sea
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
MARGARET FULLER

Heart Real Sympathy
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLER

Demon Depth Men
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Fire Home House
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
MARGARET FULLER

Criticism Use Writing
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
MARGARET FULLER

Arbitrary Earth Soul

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