Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon huma… — Quoted

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

Charles Horton Cooley · Failure

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Charles Horton Cooley

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

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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.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

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