 Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.  Essays: First Series - Página 50por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 páginas
...simply 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...Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Fulton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great, is to be misunderstood."... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 páginas
...nineteenth century moralist, who was lauded at one of your meetings — Emerson. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. What a capital motto for the modern opportunist. The highest ideal then... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 páginas
...philosophers, and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict even-- thing you said to-day."1 At least this is his teaching as formulated in his writings. And those... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 páginas
...simply 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...contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, BO you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it BO bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras vras... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 páginas
...simply 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 in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." On the I5th of May, 1833, Emerson dined with Landor, and thus records... | |
 | 1890 - 596 páginas
...yesterday. " With consistency," he says, "a great soul has simply nothing to do." "Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day — ' ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' Is it BO bad to be... | |
 | 1890 - 770 páginas
...as weel's ye can More like other-world wisdom are these words from Emerson : *' Speak whaf you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." And these from Bacon : " Simulation and dissimulation commonly carry with... | |
 | Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 184 páginas
...nothing to do. 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 you said to-day. — Emerson. XXV.—DICTATION. So live that when thy summons comes to join... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1891 - 188 páginas
...packthread; 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 you said to-day. " Ah, then," exclaim the aged ladies, " you shall be sure to be misunderstood."... | |
 | John Christie - 1892 - 230 páginas
...nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak of what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' Js it so bad, then, to... | |
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