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. Twelve Essays - Page 48by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your hobpoblin of little minds, adored by little states nen and philosophers and divines. With consistency... | |
| John Michels - 1983 - 684 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,...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,... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 pages
...consistency," can not be doubted. On this point, a free-minded, independent writer once remarked: " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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,... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...if you ask me how I dare say so, I am the most helpless of mortal men." He tells them : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
| 1886 - 436 pages
...harmlessly in his teeth. He even transmutes it by his skill into a bouquet and decorates himself with it. " With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. To be great is to be misunderstood." This is of course unanswerable. No doctrine can be safer from... | |
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