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. I suppose no man... The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 23by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being,as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ? It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...exclaimed the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood! It is aright fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 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...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being,as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does... | |
| 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...the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of bis being,as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as the inequalities of Andes and Himraaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor... | |
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