 Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.  Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 297by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness,—he has always the resource to live. Character is higher...elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs. Let the beauty of affection... | |
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...when thought* are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness — he has always the resourceto live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking...Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths'! lie can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a... | |
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...books, is, that it is a resource." " The mind now thinks ; now acts; and each reproduces the other." " Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary." " Time shall teach him that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives." " There is virtue yet in... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...materials, when the fimcy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness,— he has always the resource, to live....source. A great soul will be strong to live, as well us strong to think. Does lie lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? he can still fall back on... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness—he has always the resource to live. Character is higher...elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs. Let the beauty of affection... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness —he has always the resource to live. Character...the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. JV great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live....elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs. Let the beauty of affection... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live....or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall hack on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truth? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live....is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Laving is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live,... | |
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