 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.1 I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in nard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies,...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, anc Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you will be sure to be misunderstood ! Misunderstood ! It is...? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Coper nicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.1 I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Coper nicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. 'To be great... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 478 pages
...whal tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Self- In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system Reliance. j[ lere i sa f res h touch of his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socratei;. and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise... | |
 | 1905 - 330 pages
...cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, tho' it contradict everything you said today. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. — EMERSON. "The secret of success is to do all you can without thought of fame." "Not everything... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 358 pages
...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you will be sure to be misunderstood ! Misunderstood ! It is...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Compensation is one of the most popular of his essays and contains many noble thoughts clothed in language... | |
 | 1905 - 120 pages
...world with doubt receives him; But if he tells it loud enough The world at last believes him. sheeted. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 53 .""•-". As to Garrulity. Sovereign Woman. Ten measures of garrulity, says... | |
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo. and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 
