Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLERGenius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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 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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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