 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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 10 harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... | |
 | Charles Sumner Olcott - 1916 - 456 pages
...degree by the most enlightened public sentiment, makes a poor public servant. Emerson says, " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." McKinley was not one of those who allow consistency to "scare them from their self-trust." If he made... | |
 | 1929 - 398 pages
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 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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 s» s» <I He who confronts the gods, without any misgiving, knows Heaven s» s* A FOOLISH consistency... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 528 pages
...in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. This sort of balancing of his views of independence is to be found in an essay of thirty years later... | |
 | Cornelius Howard Patton - 1919 - 268 pages
...compulsion of a world situation which no human mind could have foreseen. Emerson's saying, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines," brought comforting reflections to many. This humble-mindedness was more creditable to our spirit than... | |
 | Frank Crane - 1920 - 328 pages
...contradiction is equivalent to a lie. The truth, however, is quite the contrary. Con146 Emerson said that "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines." And I have known but two classes of people who were absolutely consistent — idiots and dead men.... | |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. 
