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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Margaret Fuller

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
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
MARGARET FULLER

Joy Nature Rich
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
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLER

Demon Depth Men
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
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
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Art Beauty Interest
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
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
MARGARET FULLER

Country Desire People Realize
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
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
MARGARET FULLER

Failing Know Soul
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
MARGARET FULLER

Criticism Use Writing
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
MARGARET FULLER

Break Men Slave
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
MARGARET FULLER

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

Heart Real Sympathy
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

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