Quotation by Margaret Fuller

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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), U.S. author, literary critic, journalist. "Recipe to prevent the cold of January from utterly destroying life," January 30, 1841, quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli, p. 97, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston (1898).

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