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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
Collection: Chance
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Leadership
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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Work
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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
Collection: Dreams
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Women
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Knowledge
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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
Collection: Great
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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
Collection: Wisdom
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Future
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Experience
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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Food
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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Nature
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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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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
- 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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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
- Margaret Fuller
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It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
- 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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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
- Margaret Fuller
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
- 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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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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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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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
- Margaret Fuller
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
- Margaret Fuller
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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Margaret Fuller
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
- Margaret Fuller
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Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Solitude
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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
Collection: Men
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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
Collection: Soul
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Men
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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Soul
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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
Collection: Men
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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
Collection: Love
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Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Truth
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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
Collection: Angel
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Be what you would seem to be.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Seems
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The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Doors
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Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Pain
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Truth is the first of jewels.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Truth
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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Nature
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Men
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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
Collection: Men
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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
Collection: Beautiful
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Mother
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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
Collection: Life
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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
Collection: Courage
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I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Thinking
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Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Appreciation
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Poison

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