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1. "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
2. "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
3. "One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
4. "A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
5. "To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
6. "Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
7. "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." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
8. "A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
9. "Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
10. "As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
11. "Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
12. "Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
13. "The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
14. "The bashful are always aggressive at heart." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
15. "The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
16. "If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
17. "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." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
18. "The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
19. "To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
20. "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." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
21. "Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom." ~ Charles Horton Cooley

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