82 result(s) for Margaret Fuller Quotes.
"I would that the flower of this freedom might grow to fruit in the a neglected garden of the human heart."
"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"The highest revelation is that God is in every man."
"Nature provides enough for every man’s need, but not for every man’s greed."
"I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it."
"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
"Learn what is true in order to do what is right."
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."
"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
"The especial spiritual service of woman is in conserving the atmosphere of love, without which the family is just a technical organization, and love offers mon in this world their nearest semblance of God."
"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."
"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."
"Fulfill yourself by daring."
"I would have every man so much like a wild antelope, so much a part and parcel of nature, that his very person should thus sweetly advertise our senses of his presence, and remind us of those parts of nature which he most haunts."
"Today we affirm a new sense - power to manifest the influence of the heavens to direct the Earth."
"It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence."
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"I would blossom if I were not a woman."
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"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."
"When a clock is still, it is only right twice a day. But when the clock of life is still, it always points to the same time. It is then that the culture of the higher will is required."
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of the gods."
"What concerns me now is mysticism."
"No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body."
"Do you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and in that I am his pupil."
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
"One thought ever at the fore- That in the Divine Ship, the World breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe together sail, Do you see, O reader?"
"I feel as if I could be a better mother if I could have a piece of my own life apart from mothering."
"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
"I may not reach be the worth of a man, but thank God I can reach for it."
"What concerns me now is a pressing question: how to be a woman."
"All is true, if by true you mean the feeling which makes each fiction credible."
"All creation is a mine, and every man, a miner."
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"It is a vulgar error, that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy."
"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human soul to keep clear of falsehoods."
"There is not a sacred place on the face of the Earth but bears a trace of man; and everywhere man finds the image of himself."
"Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf."
"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden."
"The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give into peer pressure to try to be something that you're not."
"I would have life to use, that is to save, not to destroy."
"If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you."
"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."
"As a child, we see what could be, with a sense of the negative things that are."
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."
"Men commonly condemn others under the pretext of defending their honesty."
"The only way to rise is by binding together, by protecting one another."
"We would correct what is wrong, if we knew what is right."
"I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own."
"The character and life of each individual in every calling is the solution of the enigma of life."
"Truth is the rock of ages, the center around which the whirling revolutions of the world revolve."
"Man is not made for society, but society is made for man."
"I accept the universe!"
"I would have all young damsels spend a good part of each day in some sort of employment."
"A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."
"The general cry is against idleness and for a career. Nobody can object to one's following a career when one can."
"It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy."
"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism."
"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten."
"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake."
"Great truths are portions of the soul of man."
"If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now."
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."
"I would have the constitution of a dog if I were to chain up my faculties."
"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."
"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."
"We would not have piece and love at the same time if not for woman's nature."
"Nature is not infallible but is generally true."
"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
"What concerns me even more than manner is reality - the vital meaning of things."
"I have no church nor need for one, for I do not see in the doctrine-based context the way to claim the power of existence, power of consciousness, power of love."
"Be what you wish to seem."
"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."
"I hate the giving of the hand unless the heart is given along with it."
"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife."
"You admire this and you gain what you admire. If a man examine your work and Intentions, he cares not for what you have but what you are."
"I first get my argument into small compass, and then, as I work it out, make it as profound as I can."
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