 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.  Emerson - Page 49by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...aged ladies, "you shall be sure to be misunderstood." Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...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 - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...aged ladies, you 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...nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by thejaw ofjiis being as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the... | |
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...the aged ladies, 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...no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of bis will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and 1 1 immaleh are insignificant... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ? It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...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 [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,...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 being as... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...the aged ladies, 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...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITY. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...the aged ladies, 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...wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to bo misunderstood. CHKIST AND CHRISTIANITY. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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...and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is Jo be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 488 pages
...shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to bo misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITV. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...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...and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is i_ I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of... | |
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