Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
MARGARET FULLERA 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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