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.
MARGARET FULLERWhatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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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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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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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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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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The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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