What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
MARGARET FULLERBut 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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