 | Mary T. Tardy - 1870 - 476 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think now in hard words ; and to-morrow,...though it contradict everything you said to-day." This is strong — perhaps too unqualified ; but even inconsistency is better tiian the dull, donkey-like... | |
 | Mary T. Tardy - 1872 - 616 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think now in hard words; and to-morrow,...though it contradict everything you said to-day." This is strong — perhaps too unqualified ; but even inconsistency is better than the dull, donkey-like... | |
 | Henry Williamson (of Dundee) - 1872 - 334 pages
...run counter to the creeds of their forefathers. Emerson, in his essay on Self -Reliance, says :—" Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. " All who make the above their motto will peruse with pleasure this effort of Mr Freckelton. c. D.... | |
 | Charles Abner Phelps - 1872 - 404 pages
...way to actual facts as they have arisen. u A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." " Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks." On the llth of August, 1867, President Johnson determined to remove Mr. Stanton from the office of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood 1 ' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood ? " — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood ? " • — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood ? " — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood ? " — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...reproduce here the version of the first edition with a ruder vigor, more adapted to delivery in the Lyceum. "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with pack-thread, do ! else, if you would be a man, speak what... | |
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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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now... 
