Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLERSpirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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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