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Perhaps it is a weakness to confide to you embryo designs, which never may glow into life, or mock me by their failure.
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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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Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.
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We doubt not the destiny of our country — that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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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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I only know one prayer — "Give me the truth,
Give me that colored whiteness, ancient youth,
Complex and simple, seen in joy and ruth. Let me not by vain wishes bar my claim,
Nor soothe my hunger by an empty name,
Nor crucify the Son of man by hasty blame. But in the earth and fire, water and air,
Live earnestly by turns without despair,
Nor seek a home till home be every where!"
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Life-flow of my natal hour, I will not weary of thy power,
Till in the changes of thy sound
A chord's three parts distinct are found.
I will faithful move with thee,
God-ordered, self-fed energy,
Nature in eternity.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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The Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root...
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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 man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
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A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
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We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.
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The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.
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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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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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Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.
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You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Margaret Fuller
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Born:
May 23, 1810
Died:
July 19, 1850
(aged 40)
Bio:
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.
Known for:
Summer on the Lakes (1844)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
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