The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future. Margaret Fuller More Quotes by Margaret Fuller More Quotes From Margaret Fuller The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs. Margaret Fuller learning garden years Artists are always young. Margaret Fuller artist young 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 nursing truth mother Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences. Margaret Fuller baby book children I accept the universe! Margaret Fuller spirituality accepting acceptance After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise. Margaret Fuller rome real beautiful Tragedy 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 Fuller mountain loneliness mistake Be what you would seem to be. Margaret Fuller seems The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open. Margaret Fuller temples mind doors Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm. Margaret Fuller juice may facts If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it. Margaret Fuller opera punishment fashion 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 mediocrity fancy age The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim. Margaret Fuller effort law men 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 voice dust past Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit. Margaret Fuller independence soul men You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church. Margaret Fuller atheism church christian Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom. Margaret Fuller ransom suffering prayer No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors. Margaret Fuller visitors temples grief When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. Margaret Fuller fancy intellectual inspirational It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. Margaret Fuller reading europe book
