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Function Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
- Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each…
- Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own…
- In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the…
- Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
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