...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak of what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words...

...is but the lengthened shadow of one man." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts every word you said to-day." After this, it is scarcely worth...

...self-reliant, and tell his own thoughts. As Emerson says, " Else if you would be a man speak what you think in words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in words again, though it contradict everything you said today." Above all, speak and claim your own position...

...hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. August Twenty-eighth. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. August Twenty-ninth. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions,...

...writer observes, and the advice he tenders is as happily conceived as it is forcibly expressed: — " Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again ; though it contradicts everything you have said to-day."* Nearly ten years have elapsed,...

...adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has sirmply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard7 words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow 1 Feminine, because decorous...

...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-niorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict...

...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up withpock thread, do. Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon...

...however startles us with his own consistency, in openly rejecting all consistency. He exclaims — "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. * * * To be great is to be misunderstood." If the converse of this last proposition — to be misunderstood...

...when Emerson extravagantly wrote : " I hope we have heard the last of conformity and consisten.cy. If you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything...