... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer,… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
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 Copy Share
