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" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 389
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...or nonsensiralities flat enough to have raised contempt in Jerry Sneak ! — Whipple. CONSISTENCY. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himwlf with his shadow on the wall. — Emerson. CONSOLATION. One should never be very forward in offering...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...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 what you think now in hard7 words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow 1 Feminine, because decorous...
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

1896 - 234 pages
...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 what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
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The Columbian Cyclopedia, Volume 10

1897 - 920 pages
...adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now, in hard words; and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thiuks, in hard words again,...
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Reading and Speaking: Familiar Talks to Young Men who Would Speak Well in ...

Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 pages
...somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you do contradict yourself; what then? Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread...cannon-balls ; and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. " Ah, then," exclaim the aged ladies,...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 9

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon his guarded lips ! Sew them up with pack-thread. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think...
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The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, Volume 13

William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...it may be, it shall lie with thee to use it nobly; this no man can prevent. Selections from Emerson With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with hig shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and1 to-morrow speak what to-morrow...
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American Gardening, Volume 19

1898 - 976 pages
...first cost of vine and postage. Mention date yoa wish Tine delivered. AMERICAN GARDENING,^?." New York. "If you would be a man speak what you think to-day In words as hard ав cannon balls, and to-morrow what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though It contradicts everything...
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 pages
...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude, Life only avails, not the having lived. The soul becomes. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...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 what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,...
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