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That faith and self-respect had early been awakened which must always lead, at last, to an outward serenity and an inward peace.
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“That faith and self-respect had early been awakened which must always lead, at last, to an outward serenity and an inward peace.”

Margaret Fuller

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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1845
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Meaning of “That faith and self-respect had early been awakened…”

Self-respect and inward faith are presented as foundations that can survive adversity and gradually produce greater steadiness in both outward life and inner experience.

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century, in the discussion of Miranda; Fuller explicitly connects awakened self-respect with serenity and inward peace.

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