 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...memory scare you from the pursuit of truth, which is many-sided ? Dwell ever in a new day: 'A foolish consistency Is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...nothing to do. 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...51 — 52. Hence a man must be true to his present conviction, careless of consistency : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soiil has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...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...nothing to do. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...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...nothing to do. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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...nothing to do. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. qC hobpoblin of little minds, adored by little states nen and philosophers and divines. With consistency... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...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...nothing to do. 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...enjoys the lively vigor of his mind and the felicity of his incomparable temper. — GKbbon. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with pack-thread — do. Else, if you would... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...his incomparable temper. — Gibbon, A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adorsd by little statesmen and philosophers and divines....nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with pack-thread — do. Else, if you would... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 pages
...consistency," can not be doubted. On this point, a free-minded, independent writer once remarked: " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...nothing to do. 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,... | |
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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. 
