We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERThe man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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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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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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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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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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The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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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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