We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERWe 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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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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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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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