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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. "
Select Essays and Poems - Page 38
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pages
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...spending years of time or chests ol' money— but In spending them off the line of your career. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Tno same correspondence that is between thirst in the stoujacu, and water in the spring, exists between...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of l\t~^ tie minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
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The Harmonial Man, Or, Thoughts for the Age

Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...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 minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now, in hard words : and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard -words...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

James De Mille - 1878 - 618 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...man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in words as hard again — though it contradict...
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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...upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with packthread — dp. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...perfect consistency is possible only to the narrowest mind and the feeblest understanding. ' A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul lias simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you...
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