 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
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...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 colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph , / his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield 5 to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...past for judgment into the thousand-eyed5 present, and live ever in a new day. In 20 your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity ; yet when...clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph6 his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. . 25 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of... | |
 | 1911 - 540 pages
...being in one's doubts? In his essay on "Self-reliance" he gives us this advice: "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when...though they should clothe God with shape and color." And he yields heart and life to his own devout motions, which bring with them a clear revelation of... | |
 | 1911 - 616 pages
...being in one's doubts? In his essay on "Self-reliance" he gives us this advice: "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when...though they should clothe God with shape and color." And he yields heart and life to his own devout motions, which bring with them a clear revelation of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...his back on them and follow the great light of truth to which these were only porches ? Yet must you leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. I have no less disgust than any other at the cant ~\ ' of spiritualism. I had rather hear a round volley... | |
 | Hester Eloise Hosford - 1912 - 312 pages
...prove successful operation. Wise men still change their minds. And we should remember that " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Not only have the gentlemen determined on Governor Wilson's political destruction, made it a crime... | |
 | Reynold E. Blight - 1913 - 76 pages
...star and rose. He includes all. Don't distress yourself about the personality of God. Says Emerson, "when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they I am not anxious that you should profess "I believe in God." I desire that you should say, in sincerity... | |
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