But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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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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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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 man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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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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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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