Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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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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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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The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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