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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. I suppose no man... "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 23
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pages
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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 was...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does...
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A Course in Argumentative Writing

Gertrude Buck - 1899 - 232 pages
...Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson.—Emerson: Essays, First Series, Self-Reliance. (»') Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood,—Emerson : Essays, Ftr*t Series, Self-Reliance. (J) A stage whisper following a loud...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 604 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 596 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 600 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 594 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 600 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict evenithin;t you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...took flesh. To be . great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance...
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Composition and Rhetoric for Higher Schools

Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson - 1901 - 490 pages
...it contradicts everything you said to-day. —" Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?" Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be Great is to be misunderstood. EXERCISE I EMERSOX'S "Self-Reliance." Bring to class from your reading three paragraphs in which the...
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