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
| 1896 - 374 páginas
...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...Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,1 and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I... | |
| 1896 - 1224 páginas
...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 everything you said to-day. j. EMERSON' — Essays. Self-Reliance. Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man... | |
| 1897 - 920 páginas
...words again, though it contradicts everything you said to day. " Ah, so you shall be misunderstood I " Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and every wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."... | |
| 1900 - 436 páginas
...was the day before. With Emerson, I will "speak what I 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 I said to-day." I cannot afford to be consistent with my former self, nor with the ideals... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 326 páginas
...little minds. . . . With consistency a great soul has nothing whatever to do. . . . 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.' The peculiarity seems to have annoyed his friends with a turn for logic... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 páginas
...the aged ladies, you will be sure to be misunderstood ! Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word ! Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever... | |
| Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 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."... | |
| William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 páginas
...may as well concern himself with hig shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and1 to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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 tomorrow...you said to-day.— ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,... | |
| Frederic May Holland - 1899 - 280 páginas
...to it ? " . . " With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do." ..." 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." . . . " I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and... | |
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