| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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 every... | |
| 1905 - 330 pages
...men who are valuable to them. They can't afford to. Young men of that kind are too scarce. — BOK. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread...tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, tho' it contradict everything you said today. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure... | |
| James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 348 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...concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon his guarded lips ! Sew them up with pack-thread. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 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. SELF-RELIANCE To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.... | |
| United States. Tax Court - 1979 - 1248 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 - 1979 - 434 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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
| Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 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,... | |
| Edward Abbey - 1988 - 242 pages
...sweetness the independence of solitude. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. . . . 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. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. We must... | |
| Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 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,... | |
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