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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

“The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.”

Soul Musician Great Music Great Musician

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“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

“The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.”

Knows Men Soul Form Law Effort Know How Failing Highest Ideals Prophet Destined Maxims Ideal Man

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

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

“Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.”

Men Soul Able Spirit Fit Relation Independence Unions Units

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“The life of the soul is incalculable.”

Soul

Book:The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1848-49

Source: The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1848-49

“It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.”

Should Soul Earth Educate

Book:Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.”

Knows Soul Know How Failing Human Soul Ideal Man

Book:Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

Source: Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters