Margaret Fuller quotes - page 5

Those who seem overladen with electricity frighten those around them. (Margaret Fuller)
I hope we shall be able to pass some time together yet, in this world. But, if God decrees otherwise, - here and HEREAFTER, - my dearest mother, "Your loving child, MARGARET." View quote
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We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone. View quote
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I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening. Every spot is seen, every chasm revealed. View quote
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Every relation, every gradation of nature is incalculably precious, but only to the soul which is poised upon itself, and to whom no loss, no change, can bring dull discord, for it is in harmony with the central soul. View quote
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All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. View quote
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Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity? View quote
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The pass-word now is lost To that initiation full and free; Daily we pay the cost Of our slow schooling for divine degree. View quote
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What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. View quote
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God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing. View quote
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Live earnestly by turns without despair, Nor seek a home till home be every where! (Margaret Fuller)
Gathering strength, gaining breath, - naught can sever Me from the Spirit of Life! View quote
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If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough. View quote
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The work is done through all, if not by every one. View quote
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I am immortal! I know it! I feel it! Hope floods my heart with delight! View quote
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Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white. View quote
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Be to the best thou knowest ever true, Is all the creed. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have a vague expectation of some crisis, - I know not what. View quote
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Come, let us mount on the wings of the morning, Flying for joy of the flight. View quote
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Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you. (Margaret Fuller)
The electrical, the magnetic element in Woman has not been fairly brought out at any period. Everything might be expected from it; she has far more of it than Man. View quote
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Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field? View quote
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I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith. View quote
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Let us be wise, and not impede the soul. View quote
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