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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. "
Essays: First Series - Page 64
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pages
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. lu your metaphysics you have denied personality to the...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...
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Essays: First series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...the past for jndgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysies you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when...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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency...
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Biology, with Preludes on Current Events

Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and flee " (EMEBSON, Essays, vol. ip £0). Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's...
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Biology: With Preludes on Current Events

Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the har'ot, and flee " (EMERSON, Essays, vol. ip 50). Whoever would come to the point of view from which...
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The Harmonial Man, Or, Thoughts for the Age

Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousandeyed presents, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics, you have denied personality to...with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph did his coat in the house of the harlot, and flee. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little...
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Twelve Monday lectures in Tremont temple, Boston

Joseph Cook - 1877 - 138 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality 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 nee."f Whoever would...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...A general example of this quality may be found in the following passage from Emerson : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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. Out...
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On a Foundation for Religion

William Mackintire Salter - 1879 - 64 pages
...conception. We may not indeed deny our impulses or refuse to allow the natural forms which they create. " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...though they should clothe God with shape and color."* Yet we may not make of this temporary result of impulse a permanent element in our creed; the intellect...
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Biology, with preludes on current events. Repr

Joseph Cook - 1879 - 178 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality 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 tiee."2 Whoever would...
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