Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
MARGARET FULLERGenius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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 FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERSpirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
MARGARET FULLERHarmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
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.
MARGARET FULLERA 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 FULLERThere is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
MARGARET FULLERWe would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
MARGARET FULLERIt 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.
MARGARET FULLERThe man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
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 FULLERMan tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLERWhat a difference it makes to come home to a child!
MARGARET FULLEROur desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
MARGARET FULLEROnly the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
MARGARET FULLER