Quotation by Margaret Fuller

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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.

Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), U.S. author, literary critic, journalist. journal entry, September 1840, quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli, p. 99, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston (1898).

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