 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 strani
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul lias simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 strani
...the soul come, yield to them with heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 strani
...the soul come, yield to them with heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flea^, JjtA. foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 strani
...51 — 52. Hence a man must be true to his present conviction, careless of consistency : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soiil has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 strani
...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobpoblin of little minds, adored by little states nen and philosophers and divines. With consistency... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 strani
...if you ask me how I dare say so, I am the most helpless of mortal men." He tells them : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 strani
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe' God with shape and color. Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of...statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a j , __ . lY^^ great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 strani
...conduct in this direction was certoinly a brilliant commentary on the words of Emerson : "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and adds : " He was conscious of his own infirmity of temper, and told me he saw few persons, because he... | |
 | Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 184 strani
...pre sump'tu ous vi'ti a' tion fra i' tion ri dic' u lous viz' ier (yer) XXIV.—DICTATION. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. If you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow... | |
 | James Thomson - 1892 - 300 strani
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." " Men ask of the immortality of the soul, and the employments of heaven, and so forth. They even dream... | |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. 
