Margaret Fuller Quotes

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• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Education

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• Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

  Margaret Fuller

  Solitude, Hours, Duty

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.393, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul, Earth, Should

  Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.28

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• We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Sea, Justice

  "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women". Essay by Margaret Fuller, first published in The Dial Magazine, Volume IV, archive.vcu.edu. July 1843.

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  Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

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• Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul, Failing, Know How

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Feelings, Mind

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Men, Society, Doe

  Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.28

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• I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

  Margaret Fuller

  Love, Sex, Men

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Rivers, Exception To The Rule

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Courage, Morning, Shadow

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.197, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

  Margaret Fuller

  Truth, Giving, Illusion

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.99

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• 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.

  Margaret Fuller

  Angel, Men, May

  Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.194, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

  Margaret Fuller

  Birthday, Grows, Objects

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.55, UPNE

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• Be what you would seem to be.

  Margaret Fuller

  Seems

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• Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

  Margaret Fuller

  Pain, Stealing, My Time

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.151

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• Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

  Margaret Fuller

  Age, Mediocrity, Fancy

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• Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

  Margaret Fuller

  Funny, Life, Meaningful

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.159, tredition

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Truth, Nursing

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.187, UPNE

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Spiritual, Women, Believe

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Doors, Mind, Temples

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.71

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Beautiful, Powerful, Kind

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Truth is the first of jewels.

  Margaret Fuller

  Truth, Jewels, Firsts

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (2001). “My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller”, p.219, Cornell University Press

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• The life of the soul is incalculable.

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (1988). “The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1848-49”, Cornell Univ Pr

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