 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. Speak what you think now...  The Cornhill Magazine - Página 318editado por - 1906Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 páginas
...a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now, in hard words, and to-morrow...what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah! so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Is it so bad,... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 páginas
...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...what 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 páginas
...a great soul has simply nothing to do. 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 to-day. — " Ah, so... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 páginas
...packthread, do. Else, 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 every thing you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 314 páginas
...a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." On the I5th of May, 1833, Emerson dined with Landor, and thus... | |
 | 1890 - 596 páginas
...to-day what may be the directly opposite of what he asserted yesterday. " With consistency," he says, "a great soul has simply nothing to do." "Speak what...what 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... | |
 | 1890 - 770 páginas
...yuursel as weel's ye can More like other-world wisdom are these words from Emerson : *' Speak whaf 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." And these from Bacon : " Simulation and dissimulation commonly... | |
 | Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 184 páginas
...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 you said to-day. — Emerson. XXV.—DICTATION. So live that when thy summons... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1891 - 188 páginas
...packthread; do. Else, 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 you said to-day. " Ah, then," exclaim the aged ladies, " you shall be sure to... | |
 | John Christie - 1892 - 230 páginas
...soul has simply nothing to do. He may as 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 again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' Js it so bad,... | |
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