Joseph Cook Quotes

#1. We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

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#2. A monarchy is like a man-of-war
bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.

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#3. Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

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#4. Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

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#5. There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

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#6. A thinker is a person.

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#7. So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you're always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.

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#8. It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

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#9. We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

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#10. The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

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#11. Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.

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#12. Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

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#13. Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

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#14. The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

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#15. If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.

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#16. Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.

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#17. Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.

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#18. We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

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#19. It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

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#20. Only the home can found a state.

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#21. Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.

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#22. The sense of duty pursues us ever.

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#23. God is making commerce His missionary.

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#24. Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

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