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...Self-Reliance " Mr. Emerson puts the central thought of his teaching in a short preceptive sentence, thus : "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...though they should clothe God with shape and color." This is an apt expression of the interior spirit of that Alexandrian Neo-Platonism represented by several...

...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency...

...conduct in this direction was certoinly a brilliant commentary on the words of Emerson : "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and adds : " He was conscious of his own infirmity of temper, and told me he saw few persons, because he...

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...pre sump'tu ous vi'ti a' tion fra i' tion ri dic' u lous viz' ier (yer) XXIV.—DICTATION. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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...

...emotions. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the deity : yet when the devout emotions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though...Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." " Men ask of the immortality of the soul, and the employments of heaven, and so forth. They even dream...

...fingers most vigorously. At least we find him saying in his essay on " Self-reliance" that " a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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. Speak...

...God is Love ; and love is the giving out of good. — Henry Wood, in " God's Image in Man." A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of 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...

...haughty mind bows down that it may be exalted in worship, take the following : " Trust your emotions. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the deity: yet when the devout emotions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and...