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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley in
Art
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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley in
Society
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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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