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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Essays - Página 391por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 613 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 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 to-morrow thinks, in hard words again,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 páginas
...little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a j , __ . lY^^ great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well...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 - 1888 - 402 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 to. morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 288 páginas
...Laudor " and the " Gentle Elia " sympathy of a kind existed. Whilst in London, 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 to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
| Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 184 páginas
...little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply 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... | |
| 1892 - 402 páginas
...little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divinesWith consistency a great soul has nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...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... | |
| James Thomson - 1892 - 300 páginas
...is but the lengthened shadow of one man." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts every word you said to-day." After this, it is scarcely worth while to remark his thorough... | |
| John Christie - 1892 - 230 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 of what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words... | |
| 1896 - 762 páginas
...self-reliant, and tell his own thoughts. As Emerson says, " Else if you would be a man speak what you think in words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in words again, though it contradict everything you said today." Above all, speak and claim your own position... | |
| 1893 - 378 páginas
...writer observes, and the advice he tenders is as happily conceived as it is forcibly expressed: — " Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...to-morrow thinks, in hard words again ; though it contradicts everything you have said to-day."* Nearly ten years have elapsed, since 1 described, to... | |
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