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" Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo. and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. "
The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America - Page 158
by Fredrika Bremer - 1854
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. "Ah, then," exclaim the aged ladies,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 15. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies,...and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is t<y be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...cannonballs, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITY. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...cannonballs, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies,...wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to bo misunderstood. CHKIST AND CHRISTIANITY. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets....
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is Jo be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for ..., Volume 1

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to bo misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITV. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is i_ I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of...
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A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City, Volume 1

Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 682 pages
...what they thought.f .... Ah ! then, exclaimed the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be understood. Misunderstood ! it is a right fool's word. Is it so...took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."! No manner of external authority therefore has any pretence to be sufficient ; and there is no other...
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The Somersetshire Dialect: Its Pronunciation. Two Papers Read Before the ...

Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1861 - 534 pages
...it contradict every thing you said to-day. — Ah, " so you will be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...misunderstood, and Socrates and Jesus and Luther, and Capernicus and Galeleo and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great...
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The Present Age and Inner Life: Ancient and Modern Spirit Mysteries ...

Andrew Jackson Davis - 1869 - 444 pages
...again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah ! so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Fulton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great, is to be misunderstood."...
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