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Quotes from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli — Margaret Fuller

1810–1850 United States

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I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

I have a vague expectation of some crisis, — I know not what.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

I hope we shall be able to pass some time together yet, in this world. But, if God decrees otherwise, — here and HEREAFTER, — my dearest mother, "Your loving child, MARGARET."

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

Safety is not to be secured, then, by the wisest foresight. I shall embark more composedly in our merchant-ship, praying fervently, indeed, that it may not be my lot to lose my boy at sea, either by unsolaced illness, or amid the howling waves; or, if so, that Ossoli, Angelo, and I may go together, and that the anguish may be brief.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

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