Margaret Fuller Quotes

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller quote.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
— Margaret Fuller

People for the sake of getting a living forget to live. - Margaret Fuller quote.

People for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
— Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. - Margaret Fuller quote.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
— Margaret Fuller

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. - Margaret Fuller quote.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
— Margaret Fuller The Life of Sir James Mackintosh

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. - Margaret Fuller quote.

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

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
— Margaret Fuller Papers on Literature and Art

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

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The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
— Margaret Fuller Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
— Margaret Fuller Art, Literature, and the Drama

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A great work of Art demands a great thought, or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. Neither in Art nor literature more than in life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well dressed. - Margaret Fuller quote.

A great work of Art demands a great thought, or a thought of beauty adequately expressed.  Neither in Art nor literature more than in life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well dressed.
— Margaret Fuller At Home and Abroad

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