 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 psl.
...shape and colour. 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...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has (imply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 psl.
...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...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 psl.
...shape and colour. 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...with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lipsl Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 psl.
...Wheeler. THINKINGS, FROM RALPH ~,WALDO EMEBSON. CONSISTENCY. A foolish consistency is the hohgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers,...Sew them up with packthread, do ; else, if you would he a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannonballs, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 psl.
...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...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 psl.
...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...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 psl.
...Institution. Quarterly Public Meeting of the Elocution Class. THINKINGS, FROM RALPITWALDO EMERSON. CONSISTENCY. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin...philosophers, and divines. With consistency a great soul has »imply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 psl.
...shape and colour. 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...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great sold has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 psl.
...the suffrage of the world. * * * * " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ado: ed by little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines....consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speik out what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 psl.
...alone, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. . . . With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Emerson. Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest... | |
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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. 
