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 FULLERGenius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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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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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
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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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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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Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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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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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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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.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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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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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
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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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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
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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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