Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
MARGARET FULLERA 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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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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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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