Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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It 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.
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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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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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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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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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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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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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