We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
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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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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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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.
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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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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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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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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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