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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. — Margaret Fuller

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. — Margaret Fuller

Artists are always young. — Margaret Fuller

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. — Margaret Fuller

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open. — Margaret Fuller

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. — Margaret Fuller

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers. — Margaret Fuller

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. — Margaret Fuller

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind. — Margaret Fuller

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. — Margaret Fuller

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. — Margaret Fuller

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. — Margaret Fuller

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily. — Margaret Fuller

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. — Margaret Fuller

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

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own. — Margaret Fuller

Today is a reader; Tomorrow is a leader — Margaret Fuller

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife. — Margaret Fuller

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. — Margaret Fuller

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. — Margaret Fuller

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue. — Margaret Fuller

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music. — Margaret Fuller

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. — Margaret Fuller

The life of the soul is incalculable. — Margaret Fuller

The Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection. — Margaret Fuller

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. — Margaret Fuller

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. — Margaret Fuller

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

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. — Margaret Fuller

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome. — Margaret Fuller

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. — Margaret Fuller

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. — Margaret Fuller

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. — Margaret Fuller

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble. — Margaret Fuller

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. — Margaret Fuller

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself — Margaret Fuller

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy. — Margaret Fuller

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous. — Margaret Fuller

Be what you would seem to be. — Margaret Fuller

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. — Margaret Fuller

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. — Margaret Fuller

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy. — Margaret Fuller

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church. — Margaret Fuller

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed. — Margaret Fuller

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul. — Margaret Fuller

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause. — Margaret Fuller

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone. — Margaret Fuller

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life. — Margaret Fuller

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. — Margaret Fuller

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. — Margaret Fuller

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors. — Margaret Fuller

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. — Margaret Fuller

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break. — Margaret Fuller

I accept the universe! — Margaret Fuller

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life. — Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it. — Margaret Fuller

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. — Margaret Fuller

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. — Margaret Fuller

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. — Margaret Fuller

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it. — Margaret Fuller

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. — Margaret Fuller

What a difference it makes to come home to a child! — Margaret Fuller

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. — Margaret Fuller

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. — Margaret Fuller

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion. — Margaret Fuller

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. — Margaret Fuller

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time. — Margaret Fuller

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed. — Margaret Fuller

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little. — Margaret Fuller

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. — Margaret Fuller

I am 'too fiery' ... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. — Margaret Fuller

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose. — Margaret Fuller

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life. — Margaret Fuller

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves. — Margaret Fuller

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast. — Margaret Fuller

Truth is the first of jewels. — Margaret Fuller

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. — Margaret Fuller

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. — Margaret Fuller