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• Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Spirit, Standards

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.65

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• It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

  Margaret Fuller

  Determination, Honesty, Reality

  Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.64

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• Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

  Margaret Fuller

  Dream, Reality, Waking

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.112, tredition

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• Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

  Margaret Fuller

  Desire

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.3

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• Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Joy, Riches

  Margaret Fuller (1860). “Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman”, p.369

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• There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.34, Rutgers University Press

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• Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

  Margaret Fuller

  Preparation, Prologue

  Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli: In Three Volumes”, p.84

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• Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Destiny, Impossible, Born

  Margaret Fuller (1855). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman”, p.336

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Nursing, Genius

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.301

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• As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Heart, Thinking, Mind

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.488, UPNE

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• Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

  Margaret Fuller

  Wine, Answers, Earth

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• Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Slave, Break

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Artists are always young.

  Margaret Fuller

  Artist, Young

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• Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

  Margaret Fuller

  Love, Two, Aids

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Art, Adequate, Facts

  Margaret Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe”, p.198

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• Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

  Margaret Fuller

  Woe, Infinite Hope, Life Is

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.306

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• We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

  Margaret Fuller

  Expression

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.300

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• While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

  Margaret Fuller

  Freedom, Noble

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.243, UPNE

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• Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

  Margaret Fuller

  Thinking

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Needs, Excuse

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.149

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• Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Soul, Independence

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Margaret Fuller

  Patience, Stars, Lying

  Margaret Fuller (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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• I accept the universe!

  Margaret Fuller

  Acceptance, Spirituality, Accepting

  Quoted inWilliam James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902).

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• Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

  Margaret Fuller

  Vanity, Beloved, Recognition

  Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1869). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Woman”, p.349

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• The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Children, Character, Parent

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.110

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