Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLERMan tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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 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 FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
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 FULLERThe man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
MARGARET FULLERWhat a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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 FULLERA great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. – Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.
MARGARET FULLEROur desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
MARGARET FULLEROnly the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
MARGARET FULLERTragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
MARGARET FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERSpirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
MARGARET FULLER