Margaret Fuller Quotes About Truth

• Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

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  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.187, UPNE

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• Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

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  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.99

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• Truth is the first of jewels.

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  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (2001). “My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller”, p.219, Cornell University Press

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• Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

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• 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.

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  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller”, p.54

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