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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 8: conversations in Boston. (search)
She was, perhaps, impatient of complacency in people who thought they had claims, and stated their contrary opinion with an air. For such she had no mercy. But, though not agreeable, it was just. And so her enemies were made. Ms. To show that Margaret Fuller encountered among her friends and pupils natures as heroic as her own, I will yield to the temptation of quoting a passage from another letter of this same lady; a bit of philosophy as fine as any that one finds in Epictetus or Antoninus,--stoicism in this case softened and enriched by Christianity without losing a fibre of its force:-- When I was a little one I suffered agonies of terror at the barking of a dog, yet was ashamed to run away and avoid passing him. It suddenly occurred to my thought, What is it to fear? That the dog should bite me — should inflict just so much pain as a dog's bite can, upon me. Well, I can bear so much pain bravely, I am sure, so I will take no further thought about it, but walk boldl