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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. "I*b be great is to be misunderstood^ I suppose no... "
Applications for Process Patents: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ... - Page 37
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration - 1994 - 88 pages
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The Present Age and Inner Life: Ancient and Modern Spirit Mysteries ...

Andrew Jackson Davis - 1869 - 444 pages
...words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah ! so you shall be sure to be misunderstood....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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The Present Age and Inner Life: Ancient and Modern ..., Volume 49; Volume 435

Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 pages
...words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah! so you shall be sure to be misunderstood....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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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...present, while for the past we must rely on memory and history. 6 Gen. xxxix. \2. ' Strong and enduring. thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything...Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,1 and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...Feminine, because decorous and timid. - To make grimaces. 3 Course or path in life. * Something. * thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything...Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,1 and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...which he knew only by name. Take that sentence at which we glanced from his essay on Self-Reliance : " Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton." These great names he mentions with all the easy assurance of intimacy ; he could hardly speak more...
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The Emerson Birthday-book ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers. MISU NDE RSTOOD! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. A MAN cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...to-day. — 'Ah, 1 Look backward. - A malicious imp, used by nurses to frighten children. 8 Solid, firm. so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is...Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise 5 spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his...
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The Secret of the Stream

John Brown Maclean - 1907 - 196 pages
...prophet must be willing to be misTruth understood, and to suffer as martyr for the truth he declares. " Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." The true prophet must be willing even to lose his cause for the time being, since he knows that ultimately...
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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph , / his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To_.be ereaJt, is, to be . ., . j «-*<fi?9«Wj!t**w'~-Mww, -*-'". ......js^ niisuna^e,r,s]tPQa»««*».-^w»^«;-:^-....
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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...Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and 25 every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no...
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