Joseph Cook Quotes

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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…
• Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
• It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.
• It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
• 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.
• 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 Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
• The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.
• Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.
• 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…
• 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…
• Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

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