Quote#Beauty
There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every…
Quote byMargaret Fuller · 1810–1850
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Poets of the People" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858).
English (original)
There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
— Margaret Fuller
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