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... Routine and Ideals: By Le Baron Russell Briggs - Página 84de Le Baron Russell Briggs - 1904 - 232 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 páginas
...packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' RW Emerson, Self-Reliance. 1.... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...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...hard words again, though it contradict everything YOU suid to-day/ Guard your individuality with jealous care. Reject authority without running into license.... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 páginas
...packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day." — Essays, p. 47. The man must not be a slave to a single form of thought : " How wearisome the grammarian,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 páginas
...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...though it contradict everything you said to-day.' Guard your individuality with jealous care. Reject authority without running into license. Be not the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 páginas
...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...thinks in hard words again, though / it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 páginas
...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...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad... | |
| Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 394 páginas
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think now in hard words ; and to-morrow...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 páginas
...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...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — - Is it so bad... | |
| 1910 - 486 páginas
...selfreliance, and the moral duty of man to " speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day." He realized that it was not possible for him adequately to deliver his message in the conventional... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 páginas
...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...thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah! so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Is it so bad, then, to be... | |
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