Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
MARGARET FULLERReverence 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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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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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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