Quote#Wisdom
I have a vague expectation of some crisis, — I know not what. But it…
Quote byMargaret Fuller · 1810–1850
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Letter (Spring 1850).
English (original)
I have a vague expectation of some crisis, — I know not what. But it has long seemed, that, in the year 1850, I should stand on a plateau in the ascent of life, where I should be allowed to pause for a while, and take more clear and commanding views than ever before. Yet my life proceeds as regularly as the fates of a Greek tragedy, and I can but accept the pages as they turn.
— Margaret Fuller
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