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
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...we certainly esteem him the more for saying, " A fool- tcncy rec• i " . ,1111- • ommeuded. ish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." l When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 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, and flee." l Certainly we are inclined to j«dge in the most favorable light possible one who thus insists on... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 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, and flee." l Certainly we are inclined to judge in the most favorable light possible one who thus insists on right... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...come, yield to them In-art and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." i Certainly we are inclined to judge in the most favorable light possible one who thus insists on right... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...spending years of time or chests ol' money— but In spending them off the line of your career. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Tno same correspondence that is between thirst in the stoujacu, and water in the spring, exists between... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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 - 1876 - 504 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 tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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 tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,...and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of l\t~^ tie minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph did his coat in the house of the harlot, and flee. "A foolish consistency is...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... | |
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