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 FULLERNature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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 use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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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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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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