 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...Pobli« Meeting of the Elocution Class. THINKINGS, FROM RALPH 'WALDO EMERSON. CONSISTENCY. — A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the •wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do ; else, if you would be a man, speak what... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...Wheeler. THINKINGS, FROM RALPH ~,WALDO EMEBSON. CONSISTENCY. — A foolish consistency is the hohgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers,...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do ; else, if you would he a man, speak what... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...Public Meeting of the Elocution Class. THINKINGS, FROM RALPITWALDO EMERSON. CONSISTENCY. — A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers, and divines. With consistency a great soul has »imply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A. foolish consistency is...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great sold has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...the suffrage of the world. * * * * " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ado: ed by little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines....consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speik out what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...alone, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. . . . With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Emerson. Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. '' A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak out what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pages
...alone, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. — Emerson. THE MUSIC OF TILE CHURCH. IT is well known that the Home Journal admits no controversy.... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1861 - 534 pages
...in the scriptures symbolized as a new birth, or as being born from above. Abel C. Thomas. A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself about his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and ffee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. If you would be a man, speak*what you think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-balls ; and to-morrow... | |
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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. 
