"Of all my wife's relations I like myself…" — Joseph Cook
"Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best."
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12 Quotes by Joseph Cook
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Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will…
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It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.
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It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
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Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude…
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Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie…
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The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
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The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.
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Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.
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Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot…
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So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and…
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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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