Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul. - Margaret Fuller
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
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed. - Margaret Fuller
The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
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
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…
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. - Margaret Fuller
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion. - Margaret Fuller
Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves. - Margaret Fuller
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church. - Margaret Fuller
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous. - Margaret Fuller
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
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