 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
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 579 páginas
...sentences : 1. 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 be misunderstood.... | |
 | 1900
...requirements of the day, as Emerson tells us: "Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradici everything you said today. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely... | |
 | Richard Bagot - 1901 - 13 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. . . . With consistency a great soul has nothing whatever to do. . . . Speak what you think now in hard words,...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... | |
 | 1901
...consistency Is the hobgoblin of little minds. . . . With consistency a great soul has nothing whatever to do. . . . Speak what you think now in hard words,...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 páginas
...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadowon the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow...what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderi stood." — Is... | |
 | Hugh Black - 1901 - 350 páginas
...with himself, in so far as anything in the past would be a restraint on present self-expression. " Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow...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... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 376 páginas
...consistency a great soul has nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the 245 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. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 510 páginas
...is not afraid of inconsistency. " With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do," he says. "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." He at times seems distant and cold; the light of his thought... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 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 tomorrow 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... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1903
...or two ago is little or no evidence that he is now. It depends upon the assumption of consistency. "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing...what to.morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to.day" ,(Emerson, Essay on Self.Reliance). Even if the previous declarations... | |
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