Quote#God & Faith
Every relation, every gradation of nature is incalculably precious,…
Quote byMargaret Fuller · 1810–1850
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845).
English (original)
Every relation, every gradation of nature is incalculably precious, but only to the soul which is poised upon itself, and to whom no loss, no change, can bring dull discord, for it is in harmony with the central soul.
— Margaret Fuller
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