Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
MARGARET FULLERThe man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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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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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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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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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