 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 478 pages
...whal tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Self- In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system Reliance. j[ lere i sa f res h touch of his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...misunderstood.' — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socratei;. and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo,...spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.11 I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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,...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... | |
 | 1905 - 330 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. — EMERSON. "The secret of success is to do all you can without thought of fame." "Not everything... | |
 | 1905 - 120 pages
...world with doubt receives him; But if he tells it loud enough The world at last believes him. sheeted. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 53 .""•-". As to Garrulity. Sovereign Woman. Ten measures of garrulity, says the Talmud, were sent... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 354 pages
...you will 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." Compensation is one of the most popular of his essays and contains many noble thoughts clothed in language... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 pages
...classify the argument and tell in what respect it is weak or strong : — a. " Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." — EMERSON : Self-reliance. b. " If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...knot of friends, or a pair of lovers. MISU NDE RSTOOD! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. A MAN cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to... | |
 | John Brown Maclean - 1907 - 196 pages
...prophet must be willing to be misTruth understood, and to suffer as martyr for the truth he declares. " Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." The true prophet must be willing even to lose his cause for the time being, since he knows that ultimately... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...frighten children. 8 Solid, firm. so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise 5 spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate 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. 
