Fredrika Bremer Quotes

#1. People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is ...

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#2. If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

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#3. North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.

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#4. A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

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#5. The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

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#6. Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

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#7. I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.

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#8. The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.

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#9. For the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.

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#10. If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should non deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.

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#11. These Americans believe that everything is possible ...

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#12. There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

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#13. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

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#14. At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.

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#15. Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

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