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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 30by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1893 - 378 pages
...writer observes, and the advice he tenders is as happily conceived as it is forcibly expressed: — " Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...to-morrow thinks, in hard words again ; though it contradicts everything you have said to-day."* Nearly ten years have elapsed, since 1 described, to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...present, while for the past we must rely on memory and history. 6 Gen. xxxix. \2. ' Strong and enduring. thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would...man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-niorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict... | |
| 1894 - 596 pages
...concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up withpock thread, do. Else if you would be a 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... | |
| Harriette Merrick Plunkett - 1894 - 256 pages
...risk of being misunderstood, followed Emerson's precept : " Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day." Being convinced in his inmost soul that God wanted just such a man as he was in the time and place... | |
| Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1894 - 530 pages
...when Emerson extravagantly wrote : " I hope we have heard the last of conformity and consisten.cy. If you would be a 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... | |
| 1895 - 344 pages
...with his neighbour : for we are members one of another. 13. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everyTO HONESTY THOUOHT -j^ Moral force is lost by every form of untruthfulness, even the least ; but... | |
| 1896 - 1224 pages
...soul has simply nothing to do. • • * Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, w r r wym"n p7wWt p p v wsw 0Fr j. EMERSON' — Essays. Self-Reliance. Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man : He's been on all sides that... | |
| 1896 - 374 pages
...Feminine, because decorous and timid. - To make grimaces. 3 Course or path in life. * Something. * thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras... | |
| 1896 - 234 pages
...He may as 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, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad... | |
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