 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. 30авторы: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - Страниц: 364Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - Страниц: 380
...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 - Страниц: 616
...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 - Страниц: 620
...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 - Страниц: 682
...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 - Страниц: 596
...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 - Страниц: 598
...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 - Страниц: 870
...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 - Страниц: 398
...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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