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Margaret Fuller, born on May 23, 1810, was an influential American journalist and feminist. She made significant contributions to literature, philosophy, and social reform, and is considered a key figure of the American Renaissance.

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Famous Margaret Fuller Quotes

“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.”

Heart Might Truth Simple Honesty Policy Honor Aim Trade Tone Maxims Identical Honesty Is The Best Policy Aim Of Life

Book:At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller

Source: At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller

“Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.”

Should Mind Heart Soul Character Stars Friends Ought Accounts Absolutes Satisfied Mutual Temporary Incentives Love One Another Prophetic Heart Mind And Soul

Author:Margaret Fuller

“There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”

Heart Real Too Much Danger Sympathy Crave

Book:Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)

Source: Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)

“As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.”

Thinking Mind Heart May Enjoyed Daily Life Partnership Entering Heart And Mind Intercourse

Book:The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

“The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.”

Heart Persons Long Stills Ends Character Action Justice Draws Strive Temporary Retreat Ungrateful Suffocating Heating Recoil Idolized

Book:The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings