Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
MARGARET FULLERA 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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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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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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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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 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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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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