Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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…
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Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask…
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Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
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All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
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When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
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With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall the life never…
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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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I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle…
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
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There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
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What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.
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Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.
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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains…
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's…
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