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Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
What a difference it makes to come home to a child! (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Wine is earth’s answer to the sun (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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 (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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? (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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 (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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 (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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 (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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. (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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. (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the Earth (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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 (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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 (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
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 (Margaret Fuller Quotes)
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman (Margaret Fuller Quotes)