"Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest."

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Source: Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.65

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Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalist, Writer

Margaret Fuller was a 19th-century American journalist and feminist, known for her influential work 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' advocating for women's rights.

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