Margaret Fuller quotes - page 2

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man. (Margaret Fuller)
I am 'too fiery' ... yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything. View quote
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. View quote
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child! View quote
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Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself. View quote
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There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. View quote
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. View quote
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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. View quote
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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom. View quote
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Be what you would seem to be. View quote
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses. (Margaret Fuller)
We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points. View quote
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How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little. View quote
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. View quote
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife. View quote
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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. View quote
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Presence all thy fancies supersedes, All that is done which thou wouldst seek in deeds, The wealth obliterates all seeming needs. View quote
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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. View quote
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The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need. The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn, And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne. (Margaret Fuller)
I do not think we are deceived to grow, But that the crudest fancy, slightest show, Covers some separate truth that we may know.In the one Truth, each separate fact is true; Eternally in one I many view, And destinies through destiny pursue. View quote
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The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend, Freedom is but a means to gain an end. Freedom should build the temple, but the shrine Be consecrate to thought still more divine. The human bliss which angel hopes foresaw Is liberty to comprehend the law. Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame, Comprising means and end in Truth's great name. View quote
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Knights of the Rosy Cross, they bore Its weight within the heart, but wore Without, devotion's sign in glistening ruby bright; The gall and vinegar they drank alone, But to the world at large would only own The wine of faith, sparkling with rosy light. View quote
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A many-colored light flows from our sun; Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun; The prison modifies the perfect day; But thou hast known such mediums to shun, And cast once more on life a pure white ray. Absorbed in the creations of thy mind, Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find. View quote
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