It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that th…

Margaret Fuller
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It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul. ✨ Margaret Fuller (1852). Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, p.28
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