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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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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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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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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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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The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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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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