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Essays: First Series - Page 50
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 pages
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...Course or path in life. * Something. * thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to...Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,1 and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

1896 - 1224 pages
...soul has simply nothing to do. • • * Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, w r r wym"n p7wWt p p v wsw 0Fr everything you said to-day. j. EMERSON' — Essays. Self-Reliance. Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man...
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The Columbian Cyclopedia, Volume 10

1897 - 920 pages
...words again, though it contradicts everything you said to day. " Ah, so you shall 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."...
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Mind, Volume 5

1900 - 436 pages
...was the day before. With Emerson, I will "speak what I 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 I said to-day." I cannot afford to be consistent with my former self, nor with the ideals...
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Studies of a Biographer, Volume 4

Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 pages
...little minds. . . . With consistency a great soul has nothing whatever to do. . . . Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.' The peculiarity seems to have annoyed his friends with a turn for logic...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 9

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 pages
...the aged ladies, you will be sure to be misunderstood ! Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word ! 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...
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Reading and Speaking: Familiar Talks to Young Men who Would Speak Well in ...

Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 pages
...packthread ; do. Else, 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 you said to-day. " Ah, then," exclaim the aged ladies, " you shall be sure to be misunderstood."...
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The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, Volume 13

William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...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 thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...simply 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 tomorrow...you said to-day.— ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,...
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Liberty in the Nineteenth Century

Frederic May Holland - 1899 - 280 pages
...to it ? " . . " With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do." ..." Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." . . . " I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and...
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