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
 | Daniel H. Nexon, Iver B. Neumann - 2006 - 262 sider
...Sport- War Intertext DAVID i ONKi Qnidditch . . . is a fictional sport. Al HUS DUMHIEDORI-: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. RAI I'll WAI DO EMERSON IN mis ciiAiMi.RI IXAMINL: IHL RELATIONSHIP of the game of Quidditch to the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 sider
...belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds., adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the... | |
 | Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 sider
...truth a falsehood tomorrow, is the root of that "foolish consistency" Emerson famously castigates as the "hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" (EL, 265). "Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" Emerson asks, previewing Whitman's... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 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 tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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 tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 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 tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Bill Sanders, William Sanders - 2007 - 74 sider
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 | Brad Castro - 2007 - 102 sider
...perhaps, produces a varied character, not a uniform one. In Self-Reliance, Emerson writes, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." And near the end of Song of Myself, Whitman adds: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 sider
...Coupar Angus. 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American essayist, philosopher, and poet. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" is from the essay "SelfReliance" (Essays, 1841). 4 "mountain dew"] any whiskey, but especially illegally... | |
 | Kimberly Campbell - 2007 - 233 sider
...Publishers. All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission from publisher. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Students noted the quotes listed above as lines that struck them in this essay. They wanted to know... | |
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