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" 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... "
Reading and Speaking: Familiar Talks to Young Men who Would Speak Well in ... - Página 122
por Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 199 páginas
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

1896 - 234 páginas
...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 every thing you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 páginas
...Feminine, because decorous and timid. - To make grimaces. 3 Course or path in life. * Something. * thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...
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Mind, Volume 5

1900 - 436 páginas
...was the day before. With Emerson, I will "speak what I 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 I said to-day." I cannot afford to be consistent with my former self, nor with the ideals of a lesser...
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Studies of a Biographer, Volume 4

Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 páginas
...consistency a great soul has nothing whatever to do. . . . Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day.' The peculiarity seems to have annoyed his friends with a turn for logic Argument was for him an absurdity....
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 9

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 páginas
...concern himself with his shadow on the 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-bails, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict...
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The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, Volume 13

William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 páginas
...may as well concern himself with hig shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and1 to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative...
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American Gardening, Volume 19

1898 - 976 páginas
...first cost of vine and postage. Mention date yoa wish Tine delivered. AMERICAN GARDENING,^?." New York. "If you would be a man speak what you think to-day In words as hard ав cannon balls, and to-morrow what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though It contradicts everything...
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A General Survey of American Literature: By Mary Fisher

Mary Fisher - 1899 - 408 páginas
...Whitman. Certainly no man ever feared inconsistency less. He follows to the letter his own advice : " Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...though it contradict everything you said to-day." At one time he tells us that the poet can articulate the world, that he is in possession of all the...
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Liberty in the Nineteenth Century

Frederic May Holland - 1899 - 280 páginas
...With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do." ..." Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day." . . . " I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be...
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 páginas
...He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. 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 to-day. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through...
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