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Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG, PC (7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947) was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914. He led the Anti-Socialist Party from 1908 to 1909 and the Commonwealth Liberal Party from 1913 to 1917.

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God is making commerce His missionary.

Commerce, God, Making, Missionary

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Certain, Manners, Physiognomy

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

Judge, Judging, Make, Men, Movements, Religious

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.

Danger, Easily, Hurt, Men, Overturn, War

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

Betrays, Expression, Low, Lows, Men, Single

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

Faculties, Higher, Peace, Supremacy, Yield

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

Sin, Free, Make

Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.

Pillow, Dies, Head, Die, Guesses

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.

Experience, Marriage, Opportunity, Persons, Wedding

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.

Able, Mother, Narrowness, Philosophy, Thought, Transmit

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

Men, Secret, Solitude

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.

Believe, Healing, Moving, Purpose, Resting, Romanticize

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Duty, Pursue, Pursues, Sense

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

Like, My Wife, Relation, Relations, Wife

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.

Concerning, Men, Rarely, Secret, Solitude, Understands

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

Constitutes, Grateful, Gratitude, Thank You

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.

Rights, Track, Want, Back, Right

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

Compass, Conscience, Ocean, Unknown

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Chart, Compass, Magnetic, Reason