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• A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

  Margaret Fuller

  Home, Fire, House

  Margaret Fuller (1860). “Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman”, p.36

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Hands, Order, Giving

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• There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

  Margaret Fuller

  Book, Noble, Want

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (2001). “My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller”, p.79, Cornell University Press

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• All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

  Margaret Fuller

  Lying, Blow, Wind

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.146, Rutgers University Press

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Three, Philosopher, Poet

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.16

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• Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

  Margaret Fuller

  Encouragement, Struggle, Play

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Independent, Errors, And Love

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Keys, Differences, Diversity

  "Woman in the Nineteenth Century". Book by Margaret Fuller, 1845.

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• I find no intellect comparable to my own

  Margaret Fuller

  Intellect, My Own

  Quoted in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke (1852)

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• I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Feelings, Progress

  Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Complete)”, p.94, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Heartless, Wish, Fiery

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• The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul, Musician, Great Music

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.222

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Flames, Together, Sacred

  Margaret Fuller (1994). “The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1850 and undated”

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• Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Belief, Rise Above

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Civilization, Mind

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.204, Rutgers University Press

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• If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

  Margaret Fuller

  Fall, Giving, Solitude

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Education, Knives, Training

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.60

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• For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Later In Life, Sooner Or Later

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.55

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• 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

  Men, Liberty, Principles

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.243, UPNE

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Science, Men, Connections

  Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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• 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

  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller”, p.54

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• I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

  Margaret Fuller

  Knowing, America, People

  Quoted in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke (1852)

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• The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Brother, Appreciate, Genius

  Margaret Fuller (1973). “The Writings of Margaret Fuller”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Depth, Demon

  Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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• But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Lying, Flower, Light

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