 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...  Words of Reconciliation - Page 1511892Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1886 - 436 pages
...his skill into a bouquet and decorates himself with it. " With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. To be great is to be misunderstood." This is of course unanswerable. No doctrine can be safer from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...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 in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to. morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 314 pages
...kind existed. Whilst in London, 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 in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | John Christie - 1892 - 230 pages
...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 of what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has sirmply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard7 words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow 1 Feminine, because decorous... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...statesmen and philosophers and divines. August Twenty-eighth. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. August Twenty-ninth. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions,... | |
 | 1894 - 596 pages
...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...the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up withpock thread, do. Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon... | |
 | John A. Kersey - 1894 - 586 pages
...consistency, in openly rejecting all consistency- He exclaims — "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. * * * To be great is to be misunderstood." If the converse of this last proposition — to be misunderstood... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...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 in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | 1897 - 920 pages
...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 think now, in hard words; and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thiuks, in hard words again,... | |
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