 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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 tomorrow 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 then... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 616 pages
...statements that express strong feeling and are made more emphatic by being expressed in short sentences : 1. 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... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 620 pages
...sentences : 1. 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...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. All, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a... | |
 | 1900 - 682 pages
...requirements of the day, as Emerson tells us: "Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words...again, though it contradict everything you said today. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what" we have thought and felt... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 596 pages
...He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus,... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus,... | |
 | 1900 - 870 pages
...requirements of the day, as Emerson tells us: "Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradici everything you said today. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...may as well concern himself with his shadow on the 245 wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...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... | |
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