“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 , book Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement,…" by Margaret Fuller?

Margaret Fuller photo

Margaret Fuller 116

American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810–1850

Related quotes

“Beauty, which the mirror of creation was beautifying,
with a hundred thousand suns each atom caressing,
despite its great glory was behind the unseen's veil...
it did not know itself until humanity was blossoming.”

Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1644–1720) Persian writer,poet

Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 59
Rubaʿiyat (Quatrains), Stanza

“Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid”

Howard Raiffa (1924–2016) American academic

the risk avoiders
Part II, Chapter 8, Third Party Intervention, p. 118.
The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982)

“Crime, like virtue, has its degrees;
And timid innocence was never known
To blossom suddenly into extreme license.”

Jean Racine Phèdre

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses dégrés;
Et jamais on n'a vu la timide innocence
Passer subitement à l'extrême licence.
Hippolyte, act IV, scene II.
Phèdre (1677)

“On a day — alack the day! —
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air”

William Shakespeare book Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, II. Not to be confused with The Sonnets; this poem is not a sonnet

“Nigeria, it's a beautiful country with a great potential and I believe that in that part of the continent, Nigeria, once it sorts out its own problems, have a crucial role to play, like South Africa has in the more southern part of our continent.”

F. W. de Klerk (1936) South African politician

On The Washington Journal of C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?124979-1/the-trek-beginning (11 June 1999)
1990s, 1999

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do. Almost by definition an addiction takes some effort to overcome, but in more than a few ways, those that struggle the most with going vegan are those who benefit the most. Only challenges make us stronger.”

Kathy Freston American self-help writer

Source: Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (2011), p. 242

“It (democracy) is far more than merely participating in free and fair elections for a new government. It is about playing by a set of rules, respecting those rules and accepting the result even when it may not be what one had hoped for.”

Graeme Leung Fijian lawyer

Address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 8 September 2005

“In carrying out the work of female education great impediments, some of them of an almost insuperable character, had to be overcome, and many defects had to be rectified.”

Keshub Chunder Sen (1838–1884) Indian academic

Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, on 13th May 1870. See Female Education in India for full speech.

“There's alcohol in plant and tree.
It must be Nature's plan
That there should be in fair degree
Some alcohol in Man.”

A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician

Number Nine ([1951] 1952) p. 151.

Related topics