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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. – Charles Horton Cooley

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When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart. – Proverb

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. – Wayne Dyer

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

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