 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon 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, "you shall be sure to be misunderstood."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misundersi.CK>37 "[Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood... | |
 | 1851 - 650 pages
...wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do ! Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannonballs,...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." He cares not for being " misunderstood ;" his consolation is, that to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...wall. Out upon your guarded lipsl Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...by their own utterances more than by other men's — " If you would be man'' says Emerson, " speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." These headstrong sages, full of noble caprice, of lofty humors, often... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon 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, you shall be sure to be misunderstood.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaimed the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is aright fool's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as camion balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaimed the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do ; else, if yon would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannonballs,...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood.... | |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now... 
