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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 sider
...conscious of "a universal soul within or behind our individual life"? How are you related to it? 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 tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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 - 2004 - 284 sider
...hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of litde minds, adored by litde statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency...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 m hard words again,... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - 2003 - 230 sider
...US News and World Report, May 10, 1999, p. 10, in the "Washington Whispers" section. 19. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (New York: Dover Publications, 1993), p. 24.... | |
 | Douglas S. Lavine - 2004 - 228 sider
...their own set of rules. As Ralph Waldo Emerson stated in his famous essay, Self-Reliance: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." I hope nobody reading this book will conclude that I believe my suggestions and advice are written... | |
 | Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell - 2004 - 598 sider
...don't exactly go that far with him, are interesting: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesmen and 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... | |
 | Jay R. Howard - 1999 - 316 sider
...thinkers like Camp and Styll for their inconsistency — in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines"70 — but rather to point out the problematic nature of determining how in fact the term "ministry"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 sider
...be associated with him forever, as he urges his reader to strive always for authenticity. 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 - 2005 - 69 sider
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph Ms coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his sha low on the wall, Out upon your guarded lips .' Sew them up with packthread, do. Else if you would... | |
 | Lynn Marie Sager - 2005 - 266 sider
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers and diviners. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall...Ah, so (without consistency) you shall be misunderstood? Is it so bad then to be misunderstood?... | |
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