 In your metaphysies 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 shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,...  Essays: First series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when...life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency... | |
 | 1903 - 668 pages
...Emerson's are sure to know him by his PENNSYL VANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL. [FEU, declaration that ' ' a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." ( The confusion is only apparent. The man who said he had a horse who was sixteen feet high, when he... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pages
...its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Self -Reliance. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ibid. To be great is to be misunderstood. ibid. Discontent is the want of self-reliance : it is infirmity... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...and final death and disappearance." — Carlyle. is Consistency "A foolish consistency is a Virtue? the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to - morrow speak what to - morrow thinks in hard words... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...into the thousandeyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when...to them heart and life, though they should clothe 14 God with shape and color. Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...incapacity for useful association, but they want either love or self-reliance. TN your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when...though they should clothe God with shape and color. soul says, Eat ; the body would feast. The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one... | |
 | Mabel Sarah Barnes Grundy - 1906 - 408 pages
...and you say you are consistent." " A lot has happened in a month, Aunt Menelophe," I said. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." "Oh!" said Aunt Menelophe. "Yes," I said, "that is from Emerson. Eustace read it to me last night."... | |
 | Hugo Münsterberg, Herbert Sidney Langfeld - 1906 - 978 pages
...this group of admirers and says, "To be great is to be misunderstood." Yes, he did say, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines;" but he soon adds, "Of one will the actions will be harmonious however unlike they seem." Emerson despises... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet 15 when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to...life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency... | |
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