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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Margaret Fuller

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
MARGARET FULLER

Arbitrary Earth Soul
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Hour Scene Write
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
MARGARET FULLER

Heart Real Sympathy
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLER

Demon Depth Men
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Flower Light Lying
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
MARGARET FULLER

Criticism Use Writing
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 FULLER

Lying Patience Star
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
MARGARET FULLER

Flame Sacred Together
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Loneliness Mistake Mountain
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLER

Justice Men Sea
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER

Difference Diversity Key
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
MARGARET FULLER

Education Knives Training
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLER

Barrier Justice Men Sea
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Given Presentiment World
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Mother Nurse Truth
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
MARGARET FULLER

Connection Men Science

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