With consistency a great soul has simply 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 be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard... The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Página 387por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lipsl Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 páginas
...hampered by their own utterances more than by other men's—" If you would be man'' says Emerson, " speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." These headstrong sages, full of noble caprice, of lofty humors, often... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would he a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines. "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood.... | |
| 1850 - 548 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...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 every... | |
| 1849 - 448 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...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 every... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...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,... | |
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