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It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty...

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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proport...

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

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpr...

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

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

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense o...

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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritua...

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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till pub...

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I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

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

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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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Margaret Fuller

Journalist

Born: 1810-05-23

Died: 1850-07-19

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (23 May 1810 – 19 June 1850) was an American author, journalist, critic and women's rights activist. She, her husband, and their child all died at the end of a five week voyage from Europe in a shipwreck just off of Fire Island.More