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Margaret Fuller [1810-1850] American

Rank: 101
Critic, Journalist

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.

Chance, Dreams, Experience, Food, God, Great, Home, Knowledge, Leadership, Men, Nature, Politics, Truth, Wisdom, Work

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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. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.	Great	101
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.	Food, Home	102
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.		103
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.	Men	104
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.	Leadership	105
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.	Knowledge	106
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.	Nature	107
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.		108
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.	Experience, God	109
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.	Dreams, Truth	110
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.		111
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.	Wisdom	112
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.	Politics	113
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.		114
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.	Chance	115
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.		116
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.		117
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.		118
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.		119
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.	Work	120
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.		121
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.		122
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.		123
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.		124
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.		125
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.		126
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.		201

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