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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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
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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 passes out of him.
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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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 command armies.
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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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 higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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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 general.
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Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
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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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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
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