 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
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 348 pages
...exclaim the aged ladies, you will 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." Compensation is one of the most popular of his essays and contains many noble thoughts clothed in language... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 354 pages
...exclaim the aged ladies, you will 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." Compensation is one of the most popular of his essays and contains many noble thoughts clothed in language... | |
 | 1905 - 330 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...spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.—EMERSON. "Not everything that succeeds is success; a man may make a million and be... | |
 | Barett Wendell - 1905 - 758 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... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 pages
...following selections; classify the argument and tell in what respect it is weak or strong : — a. " Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." — EMERSON : Self-reliance. b. " If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 pages
...following selections; classify the argument and tell in what respect it is weak or strong : — a. "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." — Emerson : Self-reliance. b. " If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity... | |
 | 1907 - 640 pages
..."Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be 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." ation. Let us be done with the whole tribe of them. Let us be men and women, free, sincere, true to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1908 - 606 pages
...exclaim the aged ladies, you will be sure to be misunderstoodl 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." Obedience.—The orders read on dress parade the evening before Stonewall Jackson left the valley to... | |
 | William Trufant Foster - 1908 - 512 pages
...Brutus, Charles I his Cromwell, and George III — may profit by their example." — Patrick Henry. «. "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." — Emerson, Self-Reliance. f. "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,... | |
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