Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Ch...
A source page for quotes linked to Margaret Fuller.
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
“We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.”
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
“Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.”
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
“The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.”
“You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.”
“The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.”
“Truth is the nursing mother of genius.”
“We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.”
“Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.”
“The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.”
“While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.”