Joseph Cook Quotes

• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Believe, Moving, Healing

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

  Joseph Cook

  Mediocrity, Talent, Tact

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

  Joseph Cook

  Ocean, Compass, Conscience

  Joseph Cook (1887). “Conscience: With Preludes on Current Events”

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• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Charity, Pay, Realizing

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• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Lying, Book, Dying

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• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Men, Solitude, Secret

  Joseph Cook (187?). “God and the Conscience: Love and Marriage”

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

  Joseph Cook

  Religious, Men, Judging

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• Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

  Joseph Cook

  Compass, Reason, Magnetic

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• What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.

  Joseph Cook

  Christian, Average, Evil

  Joseph Cook (1881). “Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent”

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• Only the home can found a state.

  Joseph Cook

  Home, States, Found

  Joseph Cook (1885). “Frontier Savages, White and Red”

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

  Joseph Cook

  Wife, Relation, My Wife

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• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Mother, Philosophy, Able

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• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Hurt, War, Men

  Joseph Cook (1880). “Labor, with Preludes on Current Events”

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• The sense of duty pursues us ever.

  Joseph Cook

  Duty, Pursue

  Joseph Cook (1881). “The Boston Monday Lectures”

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• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Rights, Track, Want

  Joseph Cook (1880). “Socialism: With Preludes on Current Events”

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

  Joseph Cook

  Peace, Yield, Supremacy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 477, 1895.

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• God is making commerce His missionary.

  Joseph Cook

  Missionary, Commerce

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Biology, with preludes on current events. Repr”

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• There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

  Joseph Cook

  Manners, Certain, Physiognomy

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• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Evil, May, Affection

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events”

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• It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

  Joseph Cook

  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

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• A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

  Joseph Cook

  Men, Expression, Lows

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• Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.

  Joseph Cook

  Marriage, Wedding, Opportunity

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Monday Lectures in Tremont Hall, Boston, U.S.”

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• 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.

  Joseph Cook

  Freedom, Liberty, Three

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

  Joseph Cook

  Sin

  Joseph Cook (1881). “The Boston Monday Lectures”

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• A thinker is a person.

  Joseph Cook

  Thinker, Persons

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Transcendentalism, with Preludes on Current Events”

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