Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
MARGARET FULLERThe use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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 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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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