Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
MARGARET FULLERGenius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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 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 FULLERIt was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
MARGARET FULLERMan tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLERWhat a difference it makes to come home to a child!
MARGARET FULLERHarmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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 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 FULLERThe man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
MARGARET FULLERTremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
MARGARET FULLERThere is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
MARGARET FULLERNature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
MARGARET FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERThe use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
MARGARET FULLERTo 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.
MARGARET FULLER