Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

Margaret Fuller's Popular Quotes

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

- Margaret Fuller

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

- Margaret Fuller

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

- Margaret Fuller

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

- Margaret Fuller

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led t…

- Margaret Fuller

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

- Margaret Fuller

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

- Margaret Fuller

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

- Margaret Fuller

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

- Margaret Fuller