The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
MARGARET FULLEROur desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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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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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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