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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 2345230, member: 29751"]I would prefer if my coin grading companies did NOT read Emerson literally. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #0000b3"><i>“<u>A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds</u>, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. <u>Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day</u>. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — 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.” </i></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #0000b3"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #0000b3"><i><b>-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance</b></i></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><i><u>Underlining for emphasis</u></i></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 2345230, member: 29751"]I would prefer if my coin grading companies did NOT read Emerson literally. :D [SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000b3][I]“[U]A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds[/U], adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. [U]Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day[/U]. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — 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.” [/I] [I][B][/B][/I] [I][B]-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance[/B][/I][/COLOR] [I][U][/U][/I] [I][U]Underlining for emphasis[/U][/I][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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