Margaret Fuller Quotes
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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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You ask a faith, - they are content with faith; You ask to have, - but they reply 'IT hath.' There is no end, there need be no path.
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What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.
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I am 'too fiery' … yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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The especial genius of Woman I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
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Triune, shaping, restless power, Life-flow from life's natal hour, No music chords are in thy sound; By some thou'rt but a rattle found; Yet, without thy ceaseless motion, To ice would turn their dead devotion.
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And dost thou seek to find the one in two? Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you.
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For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
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Guard thee from the power of evil; Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity? And the 'I am'' cannot forbear to be;But from its primal nature forced to frame Mysteries, destinies of various name, Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.
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I am immortal! I know it! I feel it! Hope floods my heart with delight! Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling, Upward I mount, - faith is sight, life is feeling, Hope is the day-star of might!
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.