Margaret Fuller famous quotes

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Inspirational #Happiness #Teacher

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Inspirational #Positive #Education

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

#Inspirational #Feelings #Progress

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Spiritual #Women #Believe

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

#Determination #Honesty #Reality

I accept the universe!
-- Margaret Fuller

#Acceptance #Accepting #Universe

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

#Keys #Differences #Diversity

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

#Wine #Answers #Earth

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

#Children #Home #Differences

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

#Love #Two #Aids

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

#Birthday #Grows

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

#Dream #Reality #Waking

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

#Children #Character #Parent

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

#Soul #Failing

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

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

#Funny #Life #Meaningful

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

#Patience #Stars #Lying

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Nature #Rivers #Environmental

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Beautiful #Powerful #Kind

Artists are always young.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Artist #Young

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

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

#Sympathy #Real #Heart

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

#Thinking

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

#Men #Feminine #Masculine

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Half #Spheres #Trouble

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

Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences ...
-- Margaret Fuller

#Baby #Children #Book

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

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

#Angel #Men #May

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

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

#Love #Sex #Men

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

#Littles #Worship #Persons

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Horse #Essence #Play

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Soul #Earth #Should

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

#Freedom #Noble

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

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 #Morning #Home

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Courage #Morning #Shadow

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
-- Margaret Fuller

#Greatness #Feelings #Mind