...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...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 again,...

...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 his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with packthread, do. Else if you would be a man, speak what...

...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. 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 contradicts every word you said to-day." After this, it is scarcely worth while to remark his thorough...

...hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. August Twenty-eighth. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. August Twenty-ninth. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions,...

...adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has sirmply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard7 words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow 1 Feminine, because decorous and timid. 2 To make grimaces....

...conceived as it is forcibly expressed: — " 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 contradicts everything you have said to-day."* Nearly ten years have elapsed, since 1 described, to...

...over his shoulder, but bravely, and at the risk of being misunderstood, followed Emerson's precept : " Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...though it contradict everything you said to-day." Being convinced in his inmost soul that God wanted just such a man as he was in the time and place...

...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. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up withpock thread, do. Else if you would be a man speak what...

...however startles us with his own consistency, in openly rejecting all consistency. He exclaims — "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. * * * To be great is to be misunderstood." If the converse of this last proposition — to be misunderstood...

...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. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what...