More from Margaret Fuller

  1. Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.
  2. To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons…
  3. I am 'too fiery' : yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
  4. All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Le…
  5. I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
  6. Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field? The ploughman who does not look beyond its boundaries and does not raise…
  7. I accept the universe.
  8. I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day. All my days are touched by the supernatural, for I feel the pressure of…

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