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. Select Essays and Poems - Side 20af Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 sider
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sider
...memory scare you from the pursuit of truth, which is many-sided ? Dwell ever in a new day: 'A foolish consistency Is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 sider
...51 — 52. Hence a man must be true to his present conviction, careless of consistency : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soiil has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 sider
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 358 sider
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 sider
...harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobpoblin of little minds, adored by little states nen Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 sider
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 sider
...enjoys the lively vigor of his mind and the felicity of his incomparable temper. — GKbbon. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in words as hard again — though it contradict... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 sider
...enjoys the lively vigor of his mind and the felicity of his incomparable temper. — Gibbon. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...pack-thread — -do. Else, if you would be a man. speak what yon think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in words... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 sider
...his incomparable temper. — Gibbon, A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adorsd by little statesmen and philosophers and divines....pack-thread — do. Else, if you would be a man. speak what yon think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in words... | |
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