 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.  Essays, Lectures and Orations - Pàgina 30per Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pàgines
...He may as 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, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.— ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad then... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 616 pàgines
...statements that express strong feeling and are made more emphatic by being expressed in short sentences : 1. 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 words again, though it contradict everything... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 620 pàgines
...sentences : 1. 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...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. All, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a... | |
 | 1900 - 682 pàgines
...requirements of the day, as Emerson tells us: "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. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what" we have thought and felt... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 596 pàgines
...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 tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus,... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pàgines
...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 tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus,... | |
 | 1900 - 870 pàgines
...requirements of the day, as Emerson tells us: "Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradici everything you said today. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pàgines
...may as well concern himself with his shadow on the 245 wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras... | |
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