 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 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,... | |
 | Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 168 pages
...we are inconsistent, no matter; if we are misunderstood, no matter. " With consistency," he says, " a great soul has 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 to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 504 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 with the shadow on the wall." There is one sublime idea, however, of which Jefferson is the greatest exponent,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 504 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 with the shadow on the wall." There is one sublime idea, however, of which Jefferson is the greatest exponent,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...little statesmen and philosophers and divines. *With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to doj 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 thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Dorothea Price Hughes - 1904 - 802 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...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... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pages
...The highest function of conservatism is to keep what progressiveness has accomplished. — RH Fulton. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. — Emerson. Inconsistency with past views or conduct may be but a mark of increasing knowledge and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a, great soul has simply nothing...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hebblewhite - 1904 - 902 pages
...is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude," ' ' 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 tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 478 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 with the shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak whal tomorrow thinks... | |
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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. 
