Margaret Fuller Quotes

No Temple Can Still The Personal Griefs And Strifes In The Breasts Of Its Visitors.

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.

Our Capacities, Our Instincts For This Our Present Sphere Are But Half Developed. Let Us Be Completely Natural; Before We Trouble Ourselves With The Supernatural.

The Persons Whom You Have Idolized Can Never, In The End, Be Ungrateful, And, Probably, At The Time Of Retreat They Still Do Justice To Your Heart. But, So Long As You Must Draw Persons Too Near You, A Temporary Recoil Is Sure To Follow. It Is The Character Striving To Defend Itself From A Heating And Suffocating Action Upon It.

Let No One Dare To Call Another Mad Who Is Not Himself Willing To Rank In The Same Class For Every Perversion And Fault Of Judgment. Let No One Dare Aid In Punishing Another As Criminal Who Is Not Willing To Suffer The Penalty Due To His Own Offenses.

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.

All Greatness Affects Different Minds, Each In Its Own Particular Kind, And The Variations Of Testimony Mark The Truth Of Feeling.

Everywhere The Fatal Spirit Of Imitation, Of Reference To European Standards, Penetrates And Threatens To Blight Whatever Of Original Growth Might Adorn The Soil.

Essays, Entitled Critical, Are Epistles Addressed To The Public, Through Which The Mind Of The Recluse Relieves Itself Of Its Impressions.

Some Degree Of Expression Is Necessary For Growth, But It Should Be Little In Proportion To The Full Life.

I Know Of No Inquiry Which The Impulses Of Man Suggests That Is Forbidden To The Resolution Of Man To Pursue.

All Great Expression, Which On A Superficial Survey Seems So Easy As Well As So Simple, Furnishes After A While, To The Faithful Observer, Its Own Standard By Which To Appreciate It.