 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
 | William Trufant Foster - 1908 - 516 pages
...Brutus, Charles I his Cromwell, and George III — may profit by their example." — Patrick Henry. e. "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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 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...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 - 1909 - 496 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...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... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to bfe misunderstood ! Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. 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 - 1909 - 512 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...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 - 1909 - 636 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...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... | |
 | 1907 - 250 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." Emerson's essays are not to be lightly read in a day, and then laid aside forever. As surely as a man... | |
 | William Trufant Foster - 1911 - 262 pages
...shoals and rocks in their course, or the art of navigation, as upon the most careful seaman ? " c. "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." — Emerson, Self-lldiance. d. "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so yp^shall be sure to be misunderstood."— Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Coper5 nicus, and Galileo, and Newton, 1 and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be... | |
 | Virgil A. Anderson - 1977 - 494 pages
...though it contradict everything you said today.—'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. . . . RALPH WALDO EMERSON g. An unemployed worker stopped by a farm during the last depression and... | |
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