 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...soul has simply nothing to do. • • * Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, w r r wym"n p7wWt p p v wsw 0Fr everything you said to-day. j. EMERSON' — Essays. Self-Reliance. Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man... | |
 | 1900 - 436 Seiten
...was the day before. With Emerson, I will "speak what I 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 I said to-day." I cannot afford to be consistent with my former self, nor with the ideals... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 Seiten
...then? Out upon your 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...thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. " Ah, then," exclaim the aged ladies, " you shall be sure to be misunderstood."... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 Seiten
...pack-thread. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-bails, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you will be sure to be misunderstood... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 Seiten
...consistency a great soul has nothing whatever 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.' The peculiarity seems to have annoyed his friends with a turn for logic... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 Seiten
...may as well concern himself with hig shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and1 to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every... | |
 | Mary Fisher - 1899 - 408 Seiten
...Certainly no man ever feared inconsistency less. He follows to the letter his own advice : " 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 to-day." At one time he tells us that the poet can articulate the world, that he... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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 tomorrow thinks in hard words...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... | |
 | Frederic May Holland - 1899 - 280 Seiten
...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." . . . " I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and... | |
 | 1899 - 136 Seiten
...He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man... | |
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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... 
