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Quotes by Margaret Fuller - (15 quotes)

Margaret Fuller - From the Art category:

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Books category:

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Criticism category:

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Dreams category:

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Fame category:

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Gender category:

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Genius category:

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Ideas category:

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Intellect category:

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Knowledge category:

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Nature category:

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Progress category:

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Rules category:

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Satisfaction category:

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Margaret Fuller)

Margaret Fuller - From the Writing category:

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. (Margaret Fuller)