 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.  Select Essays and Poems - Page 20by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 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...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...Public Meeting of the Elocution Class. THINKINGS, FROM RALPITWALDO EMERSON. CONSISTENCY. — A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers, and divines. With consistency a great soul has »imply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...shape and colour. 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 sold has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...the suffrage of the world. * * * * " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ado: ed by little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines....consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speik out what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...alone, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. . . . With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Emerson. Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. '' A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak out what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pages
...alone, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. — Emerson. THE MUSIC OF TILE CHURCH. IT is well known that the Home Journal admits no controversy.... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1861 - 534 pages
...in the scriptures symbolized as a new birth, or as being born from above. Abel C. Thomas. A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself about his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - 524 pages
...that Emerson has given us, I know of none more eternally true than these mighty ones : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now, in words hard as cannon-balls; and to-morrow, speak what to-morrow thinks,... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and ffee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. If you would be a man, speak*what you think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-balls ; and to-morrow... | |
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