 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It ii a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. " I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...shall be sure to be misunderstood." Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 15. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...shall be sure to be misundersi.CK>37 "[Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by thejaw ofjiis... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. " I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of bis will are rounded in by the law of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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 misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ? It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is t<y be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is aright fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood t Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no-man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...thing you said to-day. — ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his... | |
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Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 
