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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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