Margaret Fuller
Critic
1810-05-23
Quotes by Margaret Fuller
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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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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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
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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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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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Let me stand in my age with all its waters flowing round me. If they sometimes subdue, they must finally upbear me, for I seek the universal-and that must be the best.
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No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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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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All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
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A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
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