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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...though 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...misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the saffies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh...
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Applications for Process Patents: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration - 1994 - 98 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 (18031882); American essayist, poet and philosopher; "Self-Reliance," Essay, First...
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Greatness: Who Makes History and why

Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 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. And Walt Whitman proclaimed in his "Song of Myself": Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict...
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Applications for Process Patents: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration - 1994 - 106 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...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...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...speed. 3328 Essays It is so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrat¿ and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 3329 Essays To fill the hour - that is happiness. 3330 Essays The years teach much which the days never...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...though 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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Socratic Seminars in the Block

Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 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...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. FIGURE 7.25. TEACHER WORKSHEET FOR SEMINAR ON "SELF-RELIANCE" Unit: English—"Voices in American Literature"...
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The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction

2000 - 326 pages
...though it contradict every thing 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 Contents Preface to the Transaction Edition xiii Foreword to the Transaction Edition...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood! Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. It is so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. . ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY "On Top of Old Smoky" is a folksong that was first popular in the 1840s among...
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Transcendentalism: A Reader

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 751 pages
...exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood! It is a night fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit chat even cook flesh. 6 To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature....
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