Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
MARGARET FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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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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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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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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