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Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Book by Margaret Fuller · 13 quotes · Greatness, Ifs, Knows

The book delves into the historical context of women's lives in the 19th century, examining their societal roles, legal rights, and personal duties. It includes various essays and papers that collectively provide a comprehensive view of the conditions and challenges faced by women during that time.

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The book delves into the historical context of women's lives in the 19th century, examining their societal roles, legal rights, and personal duties. It includes various essays and papers that collectively provide a comprehensive view of the conditions and challenges faced by women during that time.

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“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.”

Ifs May Children Character Parent Poetic

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“This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.”

Genius Method Fruit Crowds Complaining Heat Rays

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“The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.”

Wells Play Essence Horse Arabian

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“The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.”

Knows Should Mind Left Doors Temples Highways Open Mind

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“If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.”

Ifs Sin Fashion Mines Deserve London Punishment Opera

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“Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.”

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“Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.”

Might Spirit Growth Standards Originals Soil Imitation Penetrate Blight

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“All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.”

Mind Kind Different Feelings Greatness Particular Mark Testimony Variation Different Minds

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“Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.”

Natural Half Trouble Capacity Instinct Spheres

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“I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.”

Knows Men Wisdom Pursue Impulse Resolution Inquiry Forbidden

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“No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.”

Stills Grief Breasts Temples Visitors

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“Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.”

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“All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.”

Wells Seems Easy Simple Greatness Expression Standards Appreciate Faithful Superficial Observers Surveys

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