Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLERWhatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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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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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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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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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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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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