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• The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul, Musician, Great Music

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.222

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• Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

  Margaret Fuller

  Keys, Differences, Diversity

  "Woman in the Nineteenth Century". Book by Margaret Fuller, 1845.

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• Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Belief, Rise Above

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

  Margaret Fuller

  Three, Philosopher, Poet

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.16

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• Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

  Margaret Fuller

  Age, Mediocrity, Fancy

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• The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

  Margaret Fuller

  Science, Men, Connections

  Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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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.

  Margaret Fuller

  Flames, Together, Sacred

  Margaret Fuller (1994). “The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1850 and undated”

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• The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Civilization, Mind

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.204, Rutgers University Press

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• Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

  Margaret Fuller

  Encouragement, Struggle, Play

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Liberty, Principles

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

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• As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Heart, Thinking, Mind

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.488, UPNE

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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

  Margaret Fuller

  Independent, Errors, And Love

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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 Fuller

  Mother, Truth, Nursing

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.187, UPNE

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• Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

  Margaret Fuller

  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller”, p.54

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• I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

  Margaret Fuller

  Knowing, America, People

  Quoted in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke (1852)

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• I find no intellect comparable to my own

  Margaret Fuller

  Intellect, My Own

  Quoted in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke (1852)

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• Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Depth, Demon

  Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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• The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Brother, Appreciate, Genius

  Margaret Fuller (1973). “The Writings of Margaret Fuller”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

  Margaret Fuller

  Past, Dust, Voice

  Margaret Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad”, p.229

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• For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Later In Life, Sooner Or Later

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.55

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• If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

  Margaret Fuller

  Fall, Giving, Solitude

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Margaret Fuller

  Education, Knives, Training

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.60

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• there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

  Margaret Fuller

  Children, Parent, Use

  Margaret Fuller (1869). “Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems”, p.31

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• There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

  Margaret Fuller

  Book, Thinking, Noble

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

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• What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

  Margaret Fuller

  Children, Home, Differences

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.419, ReadHowYouWant.com

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