Margaret Fuller Quotes About Lying

• Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

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  Patience   Stars   Lying  

  Margaret Fuller (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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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. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

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  Lying   Blow   Wind  

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.146, Rutgers University Press

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• But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

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  Lying   Flower   Light  

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