Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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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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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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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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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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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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The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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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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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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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