 | 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe' God with...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...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... | |
 | William Hague - 1888 - 386 pages
...have denied personality to the Deity, yet, when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color." This is an apt expression of the interior spirit of that Alexandrian Neo-Platonism represented by several... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 184 pages
...pre sump'tu ous vi'ti a' tion fra i' tion ri dic' u lous viz' ier (yer) XXIV.—DICTATION. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. If you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon... | |
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 | James Thomson - 1892 - 300 pages
...have denied personality to the deity : yet when the devout emotions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with...Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." " Men ask of the immortality of the soul, and the employments of heaven, and so forth. They even dream... | |
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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. 
