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Quotes from Margaret Fuller

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
~ Margaret Fuller
I accept the universe.
~ Margaret Fuller
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
~ Margaret Fuller
Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
~ Margaret Fuller
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
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 its shores.
~ Margaret Fuller
Who would be a goody that could be a genius?
~ Margaret Fuller
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
~ Margaret Fuller
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
~ Margaret Fuller
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
~ Margaret Fuller
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
~ Margaret Fuller
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
~ Margaret Fuller
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
If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it.
~ Margaret Fuller
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
~ Margaret Fuller
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
~ Margaret Fuller
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." ? Margaret Fuller
~ Margaret Fuller
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
~ Margaret Fuller
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
~ Margaret Fuller
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
~ Margaret Fuller
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
~ Margaret Fuller
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
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
~ Margaret Fuller
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... Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
~ Margaret Fuller