 | Brad Castro - 2007 - 102 pages
...perhaps, produces a varied character, not a uniform one. In Self-Reliance, Emerson writes, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." And near the end of Song of Myself, Whitman adds: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict... | |
 | Kimberly Campbell - 2007 - 233 pages
...Publishers. All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission from publisher. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Students noted the quotes listed above as lines that struck them in this essay. They wanted to know... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...fear of contradiction leads to a petty concern for consistency at all cost. For Emerson, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." 60 The hero possesses a wisdom that derives from the unconscious, the realm of the "eternal One." "We... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 pages
...Coupar Angus. 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American essayist, philosopher, and poet. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" is from the essay "SelfReliance" (Essays, 1841). 4 "mountain dew"] any whiskey, but especially illegally... | |
 | Ben Witherington - 2007 - 395 pages
...flagrant immorality.2 It was the great American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson who said "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Doubtless he was right, but in fact impartiality and fairness to all are not small virtues. All sin... | |
 | Dan Miller - 2007 - 244 pages
...direction. Emerson adds, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." The "Humus" in My Life If you are a backyard gardener, you appreciate the value of humus — the decayed... | |
 | Naomi S. Baron Professor of Linguistics American University - 2008 - 305 pages
...this transformation see Baron 2000, chapter 5. 11. See, for example, Kakutani 2002. 12. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, "Self-Reliance.") 13. Baron 2000. 14. Dave Barry, "Wit's End," Washington... | |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. 
