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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.

Margaret Fuller

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.
MARGARET FULLER

Flower Light Lying
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Loneliness Mistake Mountain
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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Flame Sacred Together
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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Country Desire People Realize
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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Criticism Use Writing
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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Mother Nurse Truth
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLER

Justice Men Sea
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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Arbitrary Earth Soul
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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Connection Men Science
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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Demon Depth Men
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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Failing Know Soul
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLER

Barrier Justice Men Sea
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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Children Difference Home
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Angel May Men Woman
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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Joy Nature Rich
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
MARGARET FULLER

Dream Reality Wake

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