Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Transcendentalist, Unitarian, author, editor, reformer)
Your reluctance to go ‘among strangers’ cannot too soon be overcome; & the way to overcome it, is not to remain at home, but to go among them and resolve to deserve & obtain the love & esteem of those, who have never before known you. With them you have a fair opportunity to create the world anew…
Margaret Fuller in a letter to her father (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, social critic, author, editor)
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
Margaret Fuller (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, author, reformer)
