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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Charles Horton Cooley

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Charles Horton Cooley
Age: 64 †
Born: 1864
Born: August 17
Died: 1929
Died: May 27
Economist
Sociologist
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Charles Horton Cooley
Fall
Spirit
Back
Sometimes
Enlarges
Failure
Humanity
Upon

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If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
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Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
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The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
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