 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1902 - 442 pagine
...Several good reasons I am much too tired to discuss. Don't forget your Emerson, who says ' a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen,' and remember, also, ' a wise man sometimes changes his mind, a fool never.' The bill will not be reported... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pagine
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pagine
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...philosophers and divines. *With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to doj He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pagine
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.* Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of lit* tie minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 504 pagine
...regarding that opinion or belief can be nothing short of insanity. Emerson also says that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall." There is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 504 pagine
...regarding that opinion or belief can be nothing short of insanity. Emerson also says that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall." There is... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pagine
...happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle. — Essay on Heroism. CONSISTENCY. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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. Out upon... | |
 | 1903 - 668 pagine
...Emerson's are sure to know him by his PENNSYL VANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL. [FEU, declaration that ' ' a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." ( The confusion is only apparent. The man who said he had a horse who was sixteen feet high, when he... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pagine
...its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Self -Reliance. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ibid. To be great is to be misunderstood. ibid. Discontent is the want of self-reliance : it is infirmity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pagine
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...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... | |
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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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now... 
