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
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
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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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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
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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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A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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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.
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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.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
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Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?
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