Margaret Fuller Quotes - Page 4

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• What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

  Margaret Fuller

  Children, Home, Differences

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.419, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

  Margaret Fuller

  Self, Armor, Slave

  Margaret Fuller (1844). “Summer on the Lakes”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

  Margaret Fuller

  Past, Dust, Voice

  Margaret Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad”, p.229

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• 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

  Thinking, Heaven, Desert

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• there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

  Margaret Fuller

  Children, Parent, Use

  Margaret Fuller (1869). “Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems”, p.31

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• To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

  Margaret Fuller

  Writing, Hours, Scene

  Margaret Fuller (1860). “At Home and Abroad, Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe”, p.8

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• There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

  Margaret Fuller

  Book, Thinking, Noble

  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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• I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

  Margaret Fuller

  Life, Nature, Morning

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (1984). “The letters of Margaret Fuller”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

  Margaret Fuller

  Friends, Stars, Heart

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Mind, Earth, Treasure

  Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.370, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

  Margaret Fuller

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Next

  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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• Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

  Margaret Fuller

  Poison, Entertainment, Beloved

  Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.400, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

  Margaret Fuller

  Rome

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.427

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• ... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

  Margaret Fuller

  Perfection, Existence, Mere

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Littles, Worship, Persons

  Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.85

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• How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Expression, Growth, Degrees

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (1984). “The letters of Margaret Fuller”, Cornell Univ Pr

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Sympathy, Real, Heart

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.379, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Rays, Complaining, Genius

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.207

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• Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Margaret Fuller

  Home, Fire, House

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• 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

  World, Given, Has Beens

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• It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

  Margaret Fuller

  Book, Reading, Europe

  Margaret Fuller (1846). “Papers on Literature and Art”

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• The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Law, Effort

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.242, UPNE

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Writing, Mean, Men

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.61

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• What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Believe, Inspiration, Creativity

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

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