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American journalist and critic (b. 1810), Birth: 23-5-1810, Death: 19-7-1850 Margaret Fuller Quotes
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller

Share your wisdom so others may benefit.
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret Fuller

'Today a scholar, tomorrow an innovator.'
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret Fuller

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
Margaret Fuller

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

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

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Truth is the first of jewels.
Margaret Fuller

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
Margaret Fuller

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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I accept the universe!
Margaret Fuller

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Artists are always young.
Margaret Fuller

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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

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

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller

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

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

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

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

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

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Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.
Margaret Fuller

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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