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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.

Margaret Fuller

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

Heart Real Sympathy
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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Arbitrary Earth Soul
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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Children Difference Home
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
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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Angel May Men Woman
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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Loneliness Mistake Mountain
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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Flower Light Lying
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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Break Men Slave
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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Difference Diversity Key
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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Lying Patience Star
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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Dream Reality Wake
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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Fire Home House
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
MARGARET FULLER

Country Desire People Realize
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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Given Presentiment World
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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Flame Sacred Together
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

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 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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