divest oneself

“The business of life,” he wrote, was “to divest oneself of unnecessary possessions, and mainly of other people.”

"Superstition is something that one should divest oneself of," he said.

To act morally is to divest oneself of selfishness and attain the privilege of unselfishness.

Society," added Daly, "is truly not much benefited because the highwayman is capricious; but still, one cannot divest oneself of a certain interest for a rascal who has always shown himself ready to risk his neck, and who has never been charged with any distinct act of cruelty.

Psychical truths.—It is necessary to adopt a scientific point of view in order to interpret the facts that reveal themselves in children when they are developed upon this system, and to divest oneself completely of the old scholastic conception according to which the progress of the child is assessed according to his proficiency in the various subjects of study.