I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.… Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times.


Self-Reliance, in Essay: First Series, 1841


I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.… Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid...

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.… Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid...

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.… Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid...

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.… Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid...