| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph did his coat in the house of the harlot, and flee. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now, in hard words : and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard -words again, though it contradict... | |
| James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...A general example of this quality may be found in the following passage from Emerson : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with packthread — dp. Else, if you would be a man, speak... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...perfect consistency is possible only to the narrowest mind and the feeblest understanding. ' A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 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...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul lias simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 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...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...memory scare you from the pursuit of truth, which is many-sided ? Dwell ever in a new day: 'A foolish consistency Is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...51 — 52. Hence a man must be true to his present conviction, careless of consistency : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soiil has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 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...his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 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...his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though / it contradict every... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobpoblin of little minds, adored by little states nen hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything... | |
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