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 FULLERTragedy 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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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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