Margaret Fuller Quotes
Top 82 wise famous quotes and sayings by Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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?
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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.
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
The Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
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.
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.
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.
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
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.
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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.
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.
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.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
I am 'too fiery' ... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.