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 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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:... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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