The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.Charles Horton Cooley
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Charles Horton Cooley
''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 waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
Charles Horton Cooley
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
Charles Horton Cooley
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Charles Horton Cooley
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