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
home found states
Only the home can found a state.
believe moving passion
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.
men solitude secret
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.
peace yield faculty
We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
That was never a thought, never an option,
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.