 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. Speak what you think now...  The Monthly magazine - Page 487by Monthly literary register - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...spending years of time or chests ol' money— but In spending them off the line of your career. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Tno same correspondence that is between thirst in the stoujacu, and water in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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 has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...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 has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of l\t~^ tie minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 138 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and nee."f Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's self-contradictions are reconciled... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph did his coat in the house of the harlot, and flee. "A foolish consistency is...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. Speak what you think... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 pages
...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 " (EMEBSON, Essays, vol. ip £0). Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pages
...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 har'ot, and flee " (EMERSON, Essays, vol. ip 50). Whoever would come to the point of view from which... | |
 | 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...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. Out upon your guarded... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 178 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and tiee."2 Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's self-contradictions are reconciled... | |
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