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Quotes from Margaret Fuller

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
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
~ Margaret Fuller
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
~ 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
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
The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.
~ Margaret Fuller
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
~ Margaret Fuller
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
~ Margaret Fuller
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
~ Margaret Fuller
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
~ Margaret Fuller
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
~ 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
... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
~ 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
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
~ Margaret Fuller
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
~ 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
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
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
~ Margaret Fuller
The life of the soul is incalculable.
~ Margaret Fuller
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
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
~ Margaret Fuller
Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.
~ 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