...should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the 10 harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin...may as well concern himself with his shadow on the 15 wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else if you would be a man speak...

...march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. BACON'S ESSAYS. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. EMERSON'S ESSAYS. 20. NA WALTON ESSAY "A FROSTY MORNING" [Hitherto we have had extracts from authors...

...consistency that is worth while is the consistency of endeavor in seeking the truth. Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. If you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak...

...degree by the most enlightened public sentiment, makes a poor public servant. Emerson says, " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." McKinley was not one of those who allow consistency to "scare them from their self-trust." If he made...

...in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. This sort of balancing of his views of independence is to be found in an essay of thirty years later...

...compulsion of a world situation which no human mind could have foreseen. Emerson's saying, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines," brought comforting reflections to many. This humble-mindedness was more creditable to our spirit than...

...contradiction is equivalent to a lie. The truth, however, is quite the contrary. Con146 Emerson said that "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines." And I have known but two classes of people who were absolutely consistent — idiots and dead men....

...consistency is a virtue. No saying of his is more often quoted, and more generally misunderstood : "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now...

...was not unconscious of these incongruities, and recast Emerson's remark in Self-Reliance, " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines," into the three lines in Song of Myself. " Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,...

...-Reliance, " brings out the idea that Emerson did not condemn true consistency of thought : "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ' ' It is interesting to note that Emerson's Journals afford Dr. Crothers quite a number of texts as...