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.
MARGARET FULLEROnly the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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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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