What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
MARGARET FULLERHarmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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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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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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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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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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