Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Charles Horton Cooley
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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 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.
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Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
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