 | 1927 - 594 pages
...occasions those forbidden words are the only good ones." And he added that the famous sentence ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines") in his essay on "Self-Reliance" "would be better written thus: Damn consistency!" Only the other day... | |
 | New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1870 - 746 pages
...forget: — " A foolish consistency was the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, 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 words... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...certainly esteem him the more for saying, " A fool- teucy rce•T • • iii IT ,-i .-t ommcnded. ish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." l When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...certainly esteem him the more for saying, " A fool- tency rec., . . ,.-, 11- . ,• i . ommeuded. ish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." * When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...we certainly esteem him the more for saying, " A fool- tcncy rec• i " . ,1111- • ommeuded. ish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." l When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...for saying, " A fool- tcncy rec, . , , . , ,, . , „ , Inconsisish consistency is the hobgoblin oi little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." l When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - 1872 - 404 pages
...way to actual facts as they have arisen. u 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 llth of August, 1867, President Johnson determined to remove Mr. Stanton from the office of... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...spending years of time or chests ol' money— but In spending them off the line of your career. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Tno same correspondence that is between thirst in the stoujacu, and water in the spring, exists between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1879 - 532 pages
...avows and defends them, by declaring that ' A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing...hard words again, though it contradict everything yon said to-day. Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your... | |
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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. 
