 | John Frederick Boyes - 1859 - 284 pages
...the hobgoblin of little minds." — " Speak what you think to say in words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again ; though it contradict everything you have said to day." (Essay on Self-Rel/ance.) Observe the " everything." Why, even if a man is obliged... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 pages
...time in the short space allotted to us to waste in idle retrospections and useless self-reproaches. ' With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day.' His aim and his work were before and not behind him. He saw... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1861 - 532 pages
...in the scriptures symbolized as a new birth, or as being born from above. Abel C. Thomas. A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself about his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words,... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - 524 pages
...that Emerson has given us, I know of none more eternally true than these mighty ones : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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 words hard... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and ffee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. If you would be a man, speak*what you think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-balls ; and to-morrow... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...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...little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With cousistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...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...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - 1868 - 386 pages
...way to actual_ facts as they have arisen. " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." "Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks." On the 11th of August, 1867, President Johnson determined to remove Mr. Stan ton from the office of... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1869 - 444 pages
...consistency," can not be doubted. On this point, a free-minded, independent writer once remarked : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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, iu hard words,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 590 pages
...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...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... | |
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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. 
