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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. "
The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 57
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pages
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The Harmonial Man, Or, Thoughts for the Age

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...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

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...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

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...
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Essays, First Series

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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet

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...
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Development of English Literature and Language

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...
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The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Critical writings

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...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

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...
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Complete Works

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...
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Works

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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