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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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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 574 pages
...— ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood T — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood Ì Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...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...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...the accidents of fate, but the children of a Father,— Ibid. [RALPH WALDO EMERSON.] SELF-RELIANCE. I SUPPOSE no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himalaya are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...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 Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 486 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." Page ¿8, note 2. As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved...
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The Harmonial Man, Or, Thoughts for the Age

Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah! BO 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." ]VTr. Vaughan'a plan for modifying the causes of Rain by art is stated in his circular as follows:...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet

Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...again, though it contradict everything yon said to-day^" Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood I' Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and every wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...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 Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor...
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Essays: First Series, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 356 pages
...it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' All, 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...
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Essays: History. Self-reliance. Compensation. Spiritual laws. Love ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 360 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...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...to-day.—" Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood."—Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood 1 ! Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...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...
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