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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

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.”

Thinking Want Persons Book Sometimes Enough Divine Breaths Noble

Book:My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

“After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.”

Needs Giving Persons Real Beautiful Mets Praise Rome Real Person

Author:Margaret Fuller

“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

“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.”

Love Persons Two Aids Old Love Persons Love

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”

Littles Persons Worship

Book:Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.”

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Book:Papers on Literature and Art

Source: Papers on Literature and Art