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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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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 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...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 - 1903 - 466 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...and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of lit* tie minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul...
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Emerson

Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...consistency in "Self-Reliance." "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to die Deity: yet when die devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart...Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of die harlot, and flee" (W 1: 33). Is Emerson here confessing what Cameron submits that he must have...
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Years of Fulfillment

Mary Lutyens - 2003 - 266 pages
...all his clothes to someone in need. He once gave away his only overcoat. Emerson has said, '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.' If in nothing else, the inconsistencies in K's character would...
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Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal

Robert Fogelin - 2003 - 226 pages
...then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth. 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" Do I contradict myself? Very...
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Musings of a Thelemite

Frater Da'Neos - 2003 - 162 pages
...be damned. At least I have Emerson to come to my defense, in his essay "Self -Reliance": 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. Speak...
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Emerson As Spiritual Guide: A Companion to Emerson's Essays for Personal ...

156 pages
...judgments, even if it seems that we contradict ourselves. So what, Emerson seems to say: 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 — Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speaks...
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Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank

John Weeks - 2004 - 184 pages
...behavior will bring operations grinding to a halt, Emerson's words were never more true: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ambiguity and inconsistency are the manager's hammer and sickle. There is an important ambiguity inherent...
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Voyage to Insight

Ronda Chervin, Lois August Janis - 2003 - 164 pages
...Here are some lines from those who doubt that logic is the only way to steer toward truth: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. " Emerson (1803-1 882) "No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. Oliver Wendell Holmes,...
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Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...leaving or reliefor quitting or release or shunning or allowing or deliverance, which is freedom as in "Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee"), together further with something he means by trusting or suffering (as in the image of the traveler...
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