 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...  Ralph Waldo Emerson– Philosopher and Poet - 172 psl.autoriai: Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | James Thomson - 1892 - 300 psl.
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts every word you said to-day." After this, it is scarcely worth while to remark his thorough... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 psl.
...adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has sirmply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard7 words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow 1 Feminine, because decorous and timid. 2 To make grimaces.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 psl.
...statesmen and philosophers and divines. August Twenty-eighth. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. August Twenty-ninth. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions,... | |
 | 1893 - 378 psl.
...conceived as it is forcibly expressed: — " Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again ; though it contradicts everything you have said to-day."* Nearly ten years have elapsed, since 1 described, to... | |
 | Harriette Merrick Plunkett - 1894 - 256 psl.
...over his shoulder, but bravely, and at the risk of being misunderstood, followed Emerson's precept : " Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...though it contradict everything you said to-day." Being convinced in his inmost soul that God wanted just such a man as he was in the time and place... | |
 | Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1894 - 530 psl.
...consisten.cy. 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." The cannon balls, however, might be reserved for the day after to-morrow. It is nevertheless a great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 psl.
...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. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what... | |
 | 1894 - 596 psl.
...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. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up withpock thread, do. Else if you would be a man speak what... | |
 | John A. Kersey - 1894 - 586 psl.
...consistency, in openly rejecting all consistency- He exclaims — "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. * * * To be great is to be misunderstood." If the converse of this last proposition — to be misunderstood... | |
 | 1895 - 344 psl.
...putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour : for we are members one of another. 13. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everyTO HONESTY THOUOHT -j^ Moral force is lost by every form of untruthfulness, even the least ; but... | |
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