Top 25 Quotes by Margaret Fuller of 127 - Page 2

Artists are always young.

Margaret Fuller

Artist, Young

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

Margaret Fuller

Hands, Order, Giving

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Margaret Fuller

Men, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.34, Rutgers University Press

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

Margaret Fuller

Men, Spirit, Standards

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.65

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

Margaret Fuller

Destiny, Impossible, Born

Margaret Fuller (1855). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman”, p.336

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Margaret Fuller

Children, Character, Parent

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.110

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Margaret Fuller

Mother, Nursing, Genius

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.301

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

Margaret Fuller

Expression

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.300

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

Margaret Fuller

Dream, Reality, Waking

Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.112, tredition

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

Determination, Honesty, Reality

Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.64

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

Margaret Fuller

Beautiful, Powerful, Kind

Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

Margaret Fuller

Woe, Infinite Hope, Life Is

Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.306

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Margaret Fuller

Desire

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.3

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

Home, Fire, House

Margaret Fuller (1860). “Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman”, p.36

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

Margaret Fuller

Book, Noble, Want

Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (2001). “My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller”, p.79, Cornell University Press

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fuller

Art, Adequate, Facts

Margaret Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe”, p.198

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

Margaret Fuller

Thinking

Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.102, Courier Corporation

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Margaret Fuller

Men, Needs, Excuse

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.149

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

Margaret Fuller

Lying, Blow, Wind

Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.146, Rutgers University Press

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Margaret Fuller

Freedom, Noble

Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.243, UPNE

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fuller

Vanity, Beloved, Recognition

Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1869). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Woman”, p.349

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.

Margaret Fuller

Patience, Stars, Lying

Margaret Fuller (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”