 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...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...statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a j , __ . lY^^ great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 pages
...conduct in this direction was certoinly a brilliant commentary on the words of Emerson : "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and adds : " He was conscious of his own infirmity of temper, and told me he saw few persons, because he... | |
 | Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 184 pages
...pre sump'tu ous vi'ti a' tion fra i' tion ri dic' u lous viz' ier (yer) XXIV.—DICTATION. 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1892 - 300 pages
...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, and flee." " Men ask of the immortality of the soul, and the employments of heaven, and so forth. They even dream... | |
 | 1892 - 402 pages
...God is Love ; and love is the giving out of good. — Henry Wood, in " God's Image in Man." A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divinesWith consistency a great soul has nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph6 his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has sirmply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...Twenty-fifth. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. August Twenty-sixth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. August Twenty-eighth. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...or nonsensiralities flat enough to have raised contempt in Jerry Sneak ! — Whipple. CONSISTENCY. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himwlf with his shadow on the wall. — Emerson. CONSOLATION. One should never be very forward in offering... | |
 | Maximus A. Lesser - 1894 - 302 pages
...forget to reckon with that "foolish consistency," which Emerson (essay on Self-Reliance) stigmatizes as "the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." « So Dean Kitchin (Hist, of France, Enc. Brit. IX.) refers to the leAside from the laissez faire,... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...this in his mind that Emerson said : " Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." Remember that the inconsistency Emerson speaks of is that which is the outcome of development. Of this... | |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. 
