"In most cases a favorite writer is more……" — Charles Horton Cooley
"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 writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable."
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Charles Horton Cooley
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61 Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the…
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is,…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to…
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation…
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