 | 1927 - 594 pages
...occasions those forbidden words are the only good ones." And he added that the famous sentence ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines") in his essay on "Self-Reliance" "would be better written thus: Damn consistency!" Only the other day... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...for saying, " A fool- tcncy rec, . , , . , ,, . , „ , Inconsisish consistency is the hobgoblin oi little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." l When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." l Certainly we are inclined to j«dge in the most favorable light possible one who thus insists on... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." * Certainly we are inclined to judge in the most favorable light possible one who thus insists on right... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them In-art and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." i Certainly we are inclined to judge in the most favorable light possible one who thus insists on right... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of l\t~^ tie minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 pages
...yet, when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and flee " (EMEBSON, Essays, vol. ip £0). Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pages
...yet, when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the har'ot, and flee " (EMERSON, Essays, vol. ip 50). Whoever would come to the point of view from which... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 138 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and nee."f Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's self-contradictions are reconciled... | |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. 
