 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 páginas
...as diminishing or deadening the force of the individual: The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...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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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. 
