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. Complete Rhetoric - Page 142by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
| James De Mille - 1878 - 618 pages
...A general example of this quality may be found in the following passage from Emerson : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...packthread — 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 words... | |
| James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...A general example of this quality may be found in the following passage from Emerson : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with packthread — dp. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...perfect consistency is possible only to the narrowest mind and the feeblest understanding. ' A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...packthread, 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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 Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...memory scare you from the pursuit of truth, which is many-sided ? Dwell ever in a new day: 'A foolish consistency Is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...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 - 1900 - 356 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobpoblin of little minds, adored by little states nen Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
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