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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. "
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by Lois Kerr - 1996 - 256 pages
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The Present Age and Inner Life: Ancient and Modern ..., Volume 49; Volume 435

Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritualism - 1886 - 436 pages
...again, though 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...Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Fulton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great, is to be misunderstood."...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1888 - 402 pages
...it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...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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Essays, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1888 - 802 pages
...bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras vras misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and tmther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. V 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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The Reformed Quarterly Review, Volume 37

Theology - 1890 - 596 pages
...contradict everything you said to-day — ' ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' Is it BO bad to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to bo misunderstood." Independence, self-reliance, these are themes upon which he loves to dwell. He has...
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Reading and Speaking: Familiar Talks to Young Men who Would Speak Well in ...

Brainard Gardner Smith - Oratory - 1891 - 188 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 misunderstood, and Socrates, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh....
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Poems and Prose

John Christie - New Zealand essays - 1892 - 230 pages
...though it contradict everything you said to-day. ' Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' Js it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." This of course refers to mankind and the world at large, and not to. cliques or localities, in which...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Learning and scholarship - 1893 - 126 pages
...though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras...Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,1 and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I...
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Denver Medical Times: Utah Medical Journal. Nevada Medicine, Volume 14

Medicine - 1894 - 596 pages
...you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it then so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." ITEMS. SANMETTO IN ALL URETHRAL INFLAMMATION, AND AS A VITALIZING TONIC TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM....
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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 Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, mid Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 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 Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, find Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be...
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