...fingers most vigorously. At least we find him saying in his essay on " Self-reliance" that " 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...

...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...

...haughty mind bows down that it may be exalted in worship, take the following : " Trust your emotions. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the deity: yet when the devout emotions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and...

...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed5 present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph6 his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little...

...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...

...accused of inconsistency, or some of those who have many enemies, may read the following: "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...

...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,...

...abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men. 5. A man cannot speak but he judges himself. 6. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life. 7. I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May ; that it was Easter Sunday, and as yet very early...

...this in his mind that Emerson said : " Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then? 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." Remember that the inconsistency Emerson speaks of is that which...

...in the morass of false theological premises. To paraphrase Emerson's sentence, "When the fraternal motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should lead Jew, Presbyterian, Mohammedan, Greek, and Catholic to join hands as cobrothers in faith. Leave...