It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
MARGARET FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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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 use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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