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One Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
- When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue…
- It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
- When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the…
- One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed…
- I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it…
- One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human…
- In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a…
- It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
- An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
- One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
- The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
- There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth.…
- I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it…
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