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Live earnestly by turns without despair,
Nor seek a home till home be every where!
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
I have a vague expectation of some crisis, — I know not what.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898)
I hope we shall be able to pass some time together yet, in this world. But, if God decrees otherwise, — here and HEREAFTER, — my dearest mother, "Your loving child, MARGARET."
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.
Mercury has cast aside
The signs of intellectual pride,
Freely offers thee the soul:
Art thou noble to receive?
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Her dreams, of course, partook of this symmetry. The same dream returns to her periodically, annually, and punctual to its night.
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening. Every spot is seen, every chasm revealed.
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.
Let us be wise, and not impede the soul.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid.
She chose the Sistrum for her emblem, and had it carefully drawn with a view to its being engraved on a gem.