 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...consistency is the hohgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...Sew them up with packthread, do ; else, if you would he a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannonballs, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...adored by little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines. With consistency a great soul has »imply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do ; else, if yon would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannonballs, and to-morrow speak... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great sold has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...alone, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. . . . With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Emerson. Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pages
...alone, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. — Emerson. THE MUSIC OF TILE CHURCH. IT is well known that the Home Journal admits no controversy.... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1861 - 534 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 do. He may as well concern himself about his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With cousistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well...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,... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...divines. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. If you would be a man, speak*what you think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-balls...what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradicts every thing you said to-day. I hope in these days we have heard the last of consistency.... | |
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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. 
