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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. "
Behold the Man: The Real Life of the Historical Jesus - Page 277
by Kirk Kimball - 2002 - 701 pages
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1000 Brilliant Achievement Quotes: Advice from the World's Wisest

2004 - 212 pages
...lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small." Phillips Brooks "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson "To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson k> Whenever you see a successful business,...
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Essays Series 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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...
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...every thing you said today.—"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. —SELF-RELIANCE Do you asp\re to be consistent 7 Are you satisfied to be inconsistent and misunderstood?...
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...thought they could anticipate our actions to misunderstand us should not impede us: Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and w1se spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. (W 2:57-8) "Self-Reliance" is...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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...
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A Year with Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...contradict everything you said today, - '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. This journal entry in the summer of 1838 may well be the root of one of Emerson 's most famous aphorisms,...
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A River Worth Riding

Lynn Marie Sager - 2005 - 266 pages
...his shadow on the wall...Ah, so (without consistency) you shall be misunderstood? Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. What an extraordinary definition of greatness—to be misunderstood. In the same essay, Emerson wrote:...
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The Plain Truth about God 101

Allan W. Janssen - 2006 - 193 pages
...Copernicus refuses to publish "De Revolutionibus Purbitum Coelestium" out of fear of Church censure. ** Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...great is to be misunderstood. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson 1542 AD - Pope Paul IV decides that Rome needs its own Inquisition, vows that Rome will not be outdone...
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QuarkXPress 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas - 2006 - 489 pages
...every thing you said today. — "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. alph Waldo Emerson DO I CONTRADICT MYSELF? VERY WELL THEN... I CONTRADICT MYSELF; I AM LARGE... I CONTAIN...
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The Christ Literalist: Complete Quotes from the World's Most Renowned ...

Lou Meza - 2006 - 411 pages
...LATER SHARES THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER WITH A MULTITUDE. Luke 8:5-15 SECULAR QUOTE: "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and GaIiIeo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took fIesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."...
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