Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLERMan tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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.
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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