...consistency a great soul has nothing whatever 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." The peculiarity seems to have annoyed his friends with a turn for logic....

...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,...

...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 to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — "...

...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do," he says. "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." He at times seems distant and cold; the light of his thought is astral...

...wall. Out upon his guarded lips ! Sew them up with pack-thread. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-balls,...thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you will be sure to be misunderstood...

...wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with pack-thread, do ! else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...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...

...Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with pack-thread, do ! else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict r everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood...

...in this or that public place?" And just after it, he says: "Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day" (idem.). Thus understood in context, Emerson's statement is...

...consistency, he says: 'If you would be a man [or a woman, is it not proper now to add?] speak today what you think today in words as hard as cannonballs,...tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.' Today, Sunday, I went back to St. James, the Anglo-Catholic church I like...

...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 today." If you trust yourself, you need not worry that your words and actions cause...