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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. Speak what you think now... "
Essays, First Series - Page 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pages
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 pages
...solitude, Life only avails, not the having lived. The soul becomes. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...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...tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.— ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad then...
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Liberty in the Nineteenth Century

Frederic May Holland - 1899 - 280 pages
...answer an objection to it ? " . . " With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do." ..." Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...though it contradict everything you said to-day." . . . " I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be...
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Medical Visitor and Directory of Homoeopathic Physicians, Volume 15

1899 - 826 pages
...subject; but I refrain from going further. "Speak what you think now in hard woids," says Emerson, " and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day." I have no apology to make for my choice of subject. I do not expect all to agree with me. Discussion...
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Proceedings of the Annual Convention, Volume 1

1899 - 194 pages
...was the day before. With Emerson, I will "speak what I 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 I said to-day." I cannot afford to be consistent with my former self, nor with the ideals of a lesser...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...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...hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus,...
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A Second Manual of Composition: Designed for Secondary Schools

Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 616 pages
...sentences : 1. 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...though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right...
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Extra Innings: A Memoir

Doris Grumbach - 1993 - 306 pages
...woman, is it not proper now to add?] speak today what you think today in words as hard as cannonballs, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words...again, though it contradict everything you said today.' Today, Sunday, I went back to St. James, the Anglo-Catholic church I like so much. On Eighth Street...
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Life's Golden Tree: Essays in German Literature from the Renaissance to Rilke

Thomas Kerth, George C. Schoolfield - 1996 - 334 pages
...individual's task is to follow his course of development, knowing that society will often not agree. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...again, though it contradict everything you said today. - (SR 2:33) The immoralist who is defending his right to change his convictions and speak freely about...
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Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist

John B. Severance - 1996 - 152 pages
...husband's first budget speech. Emerson. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. . . . Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow...again, though it contradict everything you said today." Winston's old friend, New York politician Bourke Cockran, was an example of Winston's political philosophy....
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