We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERGenius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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 FULLERTremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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 FULLERNature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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 FULLERThe use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
MARGARET FULLERHarmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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 FULLERMan tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLERWhatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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 FULLERIt was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
MARGARET FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERWhat a difference it makes to come home to a child!
MARGARET FULLER