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" The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. "
Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed - Page 55
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884
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English Journal, Volume 12

1923 - 764 pages
...from each. Assign them if you can: If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party, either for the government...have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. Not to ding too pathetically to a religion or a system of government or a theory of morals or a method...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like...
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Some Contemporary Americans: The Personal Equation in Literature

Percy Holmes Boynton - 1966 - 308 pages
...from each. Assign them if you can: If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party, either for the government...have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. Not to cling too pathetically to a religion or a system of government or a theory of morals or a method...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude? The fllijULdiun lu ouufuiiulllg' 10 Usages Wiat nave Become dead to you is, that it scatters your force....If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like...
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Century Readings in the English Essay

Louis Wann - 1926 - 560 pages
...whom I do not belong, a dead Bible-society, vote with a great There is a class of persons to whom by party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeep- faces, have no deep cause, but are put on ers, — under all these screens I have diffi-...
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The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

Randolph Bourne - 1992 - 556 pages
...you is that it scatters your force. lt loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. lf you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society,...government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers—under all these screens l have difficulty to detect the precise man you are: and of...
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Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking

David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 pages
...or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....your time and blurs the impression of your character. ... A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate...
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Unity, Volume 30

1909 - 498 pages
...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, is, that it scatters your...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your tables...
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Essays Before a Sonata, and Other Writings

Charles Ives - 1962 - 292 pages
...ambitious mind of passages in Emerson such as the following: The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....your time and blurs the impression of your character. . . . But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. ("Self-Reliance,"...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like...
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