| Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1861 - 534 Seiten
...He may as well concern himself about his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...it contradict every thing you said to-day. — Ah, " so you will be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras... | |
| Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1864 - 516 Seiten
...thoughts throw a false light over those that are neither true nor beautiful; as, for instance, " Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today." Though I would not follow consistency against conviction, yet I think he... | |
| Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 Seiten
...divines. With 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...what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradicts every thing you said to-day. I hope in these days we have heard the last of consistency.... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 Seiten
...guarded lips ! Sew them up with 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...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." — Essays, p. 47. The man must not be a slave to a single form of thought... | |
| 1867 - 978 Seiten
...great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak out 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 you said to-day. — HW Emerson. SPEINQ-TIMEi What it Suggests to the Heathen and to the... | |
| 1868 - 1078 Seiten
...says Mr. Emerson, "is the -£^- hobgoblin of little minds .... If you would be a man, speak what yon think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-balls; and...thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." In the spirit of this advice, Dr. Davidson has produced the learned volumes... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1869 - 444 Seiten
...He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now, iu hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard...though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah ! so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 Seiten
...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 I everything you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood 1' — Is it so bad,... | |
| New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1870 - 746 Seiten
...concern himself with his shadow on the wall. " Speak what you think now, in words hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." He thought that those words might be written in large letters in that... | |
| Mary T. Tardy - 1870 - 476 Seiten
...minds. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think now in hard words ; and to-morrow, speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." This is strong — perhaps too unqualified ; but even inconsistency is... | |
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