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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. "
So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 8
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pages
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man1 you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and...
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All's Right with the World

Charles Benjamin Newcomb - 1897 - 272 pages
...the prisoner is his own stern judge. XIV. MISERABLE OFFENDERS. My peace I give unto you. — Jesus. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...your time and blurs the impression of your character. And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. — Emerson. SUNDAY. We have done those...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...Government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of...
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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 165 The objection to conforming to usages that have become...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for no the government or against it, spread your table...
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Omnia vincit amor

1901 - 92 pages
...to estimate a sour face." . . . "The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to us, is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character." ..." Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...a great party either for the government or against it,1 spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect...
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Essays, Volumes 1-2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. • The objection to conforming to usages that have become...a great party either for the government or against it,1 spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...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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The Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...in solitude to live after 6uFownT]5ut the great man is he who in nf SWeetneS8_%he ind^penrlpnpp nf The objection to conforming to usages that have become...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-So ciety, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table...
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Thoughts that Inspire, Volume 1

1905 - 330 pages
...reached. — DAVID RIDDLE. The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. — MONTAIGNE. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. — EMERSON. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise high with the occasion. —...
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