Truth 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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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A 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.
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Tragedy 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.
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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
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To 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.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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But 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.
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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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.
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Reverence 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.
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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The 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.
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