 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. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths?  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 327by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 pages
...thunderbolt is elicited from the •darkest storm. — COLTON. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — EMERSON. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...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...impart his truth ? He can still fall back on this eleuiental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur of... | |
 | Wallace Foster - 1898 - 120 pages
...flow back and soften and purify the heart. — Washington Irving. Character is higher than intellect; a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In... | |
 | 1899 - 136 pages
...Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Fear always springs from ignorance. The world is his who can see through its pretension. Not he is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...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...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...acts, and each) [fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancv no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended...— he has always the resource to live. Character 7 is higher than intellect. Thinking is the func/ tion. Living Is the "functionary. The stream ' retreats... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...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,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...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...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...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...— he has always the resource to live. Character isjiigher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Liv_ii_ — im - — ~_ ._. O ing is the functionary.... | |
 | 1904 - 214 pages
...instructor, and I wish it may make me more cautious and not more unwise. — Thomas a Kempis. Evening. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Emerson. NOVEMBER 27. Morning.... | |
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