Margaret Fuller Quotes

American - Critic | May 23, 1810 - July 19, 1850

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Margaret Fuller

WalkSelfBetterNeverAlwaysSlave

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

WisdomHumanPurityHuman BeingKeep

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Margaret Fuller

I AmFeelingLostBrightProgression

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fuller

PleasureBewareBeingEvenBeloved

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Margaret Fuller

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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

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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

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

Margaret Fuller

GodExperienceManDepthAspiration

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Margaret Fuller

MindEarthOutCallTreasuresThose

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fuller

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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.

Margaret Fuller

HomeFoodFireMindYouBody

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

LifeHonestyHeartBestPolitics

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