Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLERTremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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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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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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