...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 tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood....

...hobgoblin of lit* tie 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...

...little statesmen and philosophers and divines. *With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to doj He may as well concern himself with his shadow on...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...

...upon the assumption of consistency. "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" ,(Emerson, Essay on Self.Reliance). Even if the previous declarations were made very soon before the...

...string." Impatient of a " foolish consistency," the "hobgoblin of little minds," he adjures us to " speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow...though it contradict everything you said to-day." And again: "Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your own mind. . . . Absolve you to yourself...

...With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. .. He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks iu hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure...

...pack-thread, 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 ! Misunderstood! It is a right...

...he defended this dialectical emphasis. 'Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words...again, though it contradict everything you said today.' Despite all these highly purposive bafflements and hurdles, however, he produced a remarkably consistent...

...less to our character. "Speak what you think now in hard words," Emerson writes in "SelfReliance," "and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day." 93 It is told of a Zen master that his great accomplishment was to eat...

...you contradict something you have stated in this or that public place?" And just after it, he says: "Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day" (idem.). Thus understood in context, Emerson's statement is...