More from Margaret Fuller

  1. Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he wo…
  2. I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
  3. For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
  4. I am 'too fiery' : yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
  5. We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than …
  6. Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.
  7. It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that…
  8. You are intellect, I am life!

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