Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
MARGARET FULLERIt 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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