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
| 1899 - 136 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 tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man... | |
| 1899 - 194 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... | |
| 1899 - 826 páginas
...subject; but I refrain from going further. "Speak what you think now in hard woids," says Emerson, " and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." I have no apology to make for my choice of subject. I do not expect all... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 páginas
...simply nothing to do. 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,... | |
| 1900 - 682 páginas
...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"... | |
| Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 616 páginas
...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 you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood.... | |
| 1900 - 870 páginas
...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 páginas
...simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadowon 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 misunderi stood." — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,... | |
| Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 páginas
...THE OUTLOOK. 18. Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune. — LOWELL. 19. Speak what you think now in hard words ; and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you say to-day. — EMERSON. 20. Just as many good novels would be written if there were... | |
| Hugh Black - 1901 - 362 páginas
...far as anything in the past would be a restraint on present self-expression. " Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today." This demand for self-expression seems to justify itself by its success,... | |
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