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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 Fuller

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.
MARGARET FULLER

Flower Light Lying
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
MARGARET FULLER

Education Knives Training
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLER

Demon Depth Men
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLER

Barrier Justice Men Sea
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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Criticism Use Writing
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 FULLER

Mother Nurse Truth
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Fire Home House
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Loneliness Mistake Mountain
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
MARGARET FULLER

Break Men Slave
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
MARGARET FULLER

Failing Know Soul
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.
MARGARET FULLER

Given Presentiment World
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
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Arbitrary Earth Soul
A 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 FULLER

Art Beauty Interest
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
MARGARET FULLER

Flame Sacred Together
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
MARGARET FULLER

Connection Men Science
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
MARGARET FULLER

Dream Reality Wake

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.

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