“ Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. ”
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“ I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. ”
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“ There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ I have lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ Those essays entitled critical are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply — any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ”
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“ The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. ”
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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. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ”
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“ I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other… ”
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“ I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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