 The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his 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...  Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 229by Harriet Martineau - 1838Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...relative; profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing." And again : " The mind now thinks, now acts ; and each fit reproduces...materials — when the fancy no longer paints — when thought* are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness — he has always the resourceto live.... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...acts ; end eacli fit produces the other. When the artist has exhausted his 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. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made. The mind now thinks; now acts; and each fit reproduces...thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness —he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit. The mind now thinks; now acts; and each fit reproduces...thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit. The mind now thinks ; now acts ; and each fit reproduces...thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...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 than intellect. Thinking is the function. Laving is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...and re^flection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit. The mind now thinks ; now acts ; and each fit reproduces...thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit. The mind now thinks ; now acts ; and each fit reproduces...thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — -he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit. The mind now thinks ; now acts ; and each fit reproduces...fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apI iiprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the [^resource to live. Character is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit. The mind now thinks ; now acts ; and each fit reproduces...thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is... | |
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