Quote: A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: 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 the shore. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: 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. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: Nature provides exceptions to every rule. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
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Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. [Margaret Fuller]
Quote: Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. [Margaret Fuller]