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 - Стр. 28авторы: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - Страниц: 364Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - Страниц: 322
...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...man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-niorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict... | |
 | 1894
...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 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... | |
 | Harriette Merrick Plunkett - 1894 - Страниц: 208
...risk of being misunderstood, followed Emerson's precept : " Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...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 - Страниц: 517
...when Emerson extravagantly wrote : " I hope we have heard the last of conformity and 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 words again, though it contradict everything... | |
 | 1895 - Страниц: 323
...with his neighbour : for we are members one of another. 13. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what 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... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 1178
...soul has simply nothing to do. • • * Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, w r r wym"n p7wWt p p v wsw 0Fr j. EMERSON' — Essays. Self-Reliance. Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man : He's been on all sides that... | |
 | 1896
...Feminine, because decorous and timid. - To make grimaces. 3 Course or path in life. * Something. * thinks in hard words again, though 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... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 204
...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 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... | |
 | 1900
...was the day before. With Emerson, I will "speak what I 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 I said to-day." I cannot afford to be consistent with my former self, nor with the ideals of a lesser... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1902
...consistency a great soul has nothing whatever to do. . . . Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day.' The peculiarity seems to have annoyed his friends with a turn for logic Argument was for him an absurdity.... | |
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