| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...enjoys the lively vigor of his mind and the felicity of his incomparable temper. — GKbbon. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...his incomparable temper. — Gibbon, A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adorsd by little statesmen and philosophers and divines....consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...your guarded lips. Sew them up with pack-thread — -do. Else, if you would be a man. speak what yon think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in words as hard again — though it contradict everything you said to-day. 'Ah, then,' exclaimed the... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...if you ask me how I dare say so, I am the most helpless of mortal men." He tells them : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 pages
...consistency," can not be doubted. On this point, a free-minded, independent writer once remarked: " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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, in hard words,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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 in hard words,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,; and flee. / A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a j , __ . lY^^ great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 288 pages
..."Deep-mouthed Beotian Savage Laudor " and the " Gentle Elia " sympathy of a kind existed. Whilst in London, 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 in hard words,... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 pages
...conduct in this direction was certoinly a brilliant commentary on the words of Emerson : "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and adds : " He was conscious of his own infirmity of temper, and told me he saw few persons, because he... | |
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