Joseph Cook
Joseph Cook
Sir Joseph Cook, GCMGwas an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia. A founding member of the Australian Labor Party, during his early life he worked in the coal mines of his birthplace of Silverdale, in Staffordshire, England, before emigrating to Lithgow, New South Wales, during the late 1880s...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 December 1860
CountryAustralia
solitude secret
The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.
ocean compass conscience
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
lying book dying
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.
thank-you gratitude grateful
It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.
christian average evil
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.
missionary commerce
God is making commerce His missionary.
thinker persons
A thinker is a person.
sin
Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.
hurt war men
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.
rights track want
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.
men expression breeding
A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.
manners certain physiognomy
There is a certain physiognomy in manners.
duty pursue
The sense of duty pursues us ever.
mother philosophy able
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.