 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 504 pages
...regarding that opinion or belief can be nothing short of insanity. Emerson also says that "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 the shadow on the wall." There is one sublime idea, however, of... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 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...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 Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle. — Essay on Heroism. CONSISTENCY. 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 his guarded lips ! Sew them up... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 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...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... | |
 | 156 pages
...judgments, even if it seems that we contradict ourselves. So what, Emerson seems to say: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speaks what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.... | |
 | Frater Da'Neos - 2003 - 162 pages
...be damned. At least I have Emerson to come to my defense, in his essay "Self -Reliance": 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... | |
 | Robert Fogelin - 2003 - 226 pages
...then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" Do I contradict myself? Very well then ... I contradict myself;... | |
 | Mary Lutyens - 2003 - 266 pages
...all his clothes to someone in need. He once gave away his only overcoat. Emerson has said, 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' If in nothing else, the inconsistencies in K's character would make him a great soul. From the time... | |
 | Lucille P. Fultz - 2003 - 172 pages
...over time, changed her politics about race and gender differences. This Emersonian political shift — "Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again" (McQuade 1:1148) — is one measure of Morrison's developing sensibility as a woman and as an artist.... | |
 | Ronda Chervin, Lois August Janis - 2003 - 164 pages
...Here are some lines from those who doubt that logic is the only way to steer toward truth: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. " Emerson (1803-1 882) "No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. Oliver Wendell Holmes,... | |
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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. 
