 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. . . . RALPH WALDO EMEBSON — Essays * 302. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN themselves Your sacred plants, if... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. . . . I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
 | 1913 - 656 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. "—EMERSON. THE POET'S PLAINT BY GG I feel — Diviner Muse of ancient hours That once did silver... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. SELF-RELIANCE JJut if he had the earth for his pasture, and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
 | 1924 - 322 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. — Emerson. 'T'HE art of fiction has, in fact, be- TT i •*• come a finer art in our day than it... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, America as a peak of the Alps to a highland of the Hudson, and in this idea I was confir I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate hTs nature. All the' sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.-? I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 
