Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
MARGARET FULLERTremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
MARGARET FULLERHarmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLERThere is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
MARGARET FULLERA house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
MARGARET FULLERThe only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
MARGARET FULLEROnly the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
MARGARET FULLERThe man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
MARGARET FULLERReverence 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 FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERMan tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLERThe use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
MARGARET FULLERBut the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
MARGARET FULLEROur desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
MARGARET FULLERIt 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 FULLERSpirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
MARGARET FULLERTruth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
MARGARET FULLER