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.
MARGARET FULLERThe 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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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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