...the felicity of his incomparable temper. — Gibbon. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...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...

...his incomparable temper. — Gibbon, A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adorsd by little statesmen and philosophers and divines....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...

...selfreliance, and the moral duty of man to " 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." He realized that it was not possible for him adequately to deliver his...

...harmlessly in his teeth. He even transmutes it by his skill into a bouquet and decorates himself with it. " With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. To be great is to be misunderstood." This is of course unanswerable. No doctrine can be safer from...

...epochs. Listen to a nineteenth century moralist, who was lauded at one of your meetings — Emerson. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...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...

...the most helpless of mortal men." He tells them : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers,...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,...

...Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...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...

...Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,; and flee. / A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of 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 concern himself with his shadow on...

..."Deep-mouthed Beotian Savage Laudor " and the " Gentle Elia " sympathy of a kind existed. Whilst in London, philosophers and divines. With consistency a great...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." On the 1 5th of May, 1833, Emerson dined with Landor, and thus records...

...what he asserted yesterday. " With consistency," he says, "a great soul has simply nothing to do." "Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow...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...