Top 100 Margaret Fuller Quotes
#1. All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
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#2. The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
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#5. If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.
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#6. Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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#7. Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
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#8. No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.
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#9. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
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#10. All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
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#11. Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.
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#12. How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.
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#13. The Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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#14. The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
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#15. Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
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#16. It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
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#18. You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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#19. With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall the life never be sweet?
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#20. A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.
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#21. The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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#22. The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
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#23. How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
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#25. If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
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#26. Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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#27. Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
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#28. For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
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#29. It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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#30. We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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#31. But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
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#33. Beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ...
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#34. The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
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#35. We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.
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#36. A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
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#38. It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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#39. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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#40. I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
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#41. Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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#42. Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.
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#44. I am 'too fiery' ... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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#45. Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself
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#46. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
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#47. The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
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#48. Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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#49. Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.
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#50. Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
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#51. While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.
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#52. I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
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#53. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
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#54. We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.
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#55. There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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#56. Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
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#57. There is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.
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#58. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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#59. Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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#60. The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
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#61. Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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#62. Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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#64. Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
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#65. It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
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#66. The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
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#67. There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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#68. The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.
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#70. Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
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#71. The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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#72. The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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#74. The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
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#75. After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
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#76. Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
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#77. But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty.
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#78. Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
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#79. Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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#80. It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels ...
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#81. I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.
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#82. Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine
something that draws forth life towards the infinite.
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#83. But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope.
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#86. A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
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#88. To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
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#89. We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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#90. If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it.
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#91. This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
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#92. Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.
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#93. It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.
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#94. Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.
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#95. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
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#96. I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
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#97. Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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#98. There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
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#99. Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.
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#100. Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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