Thomas Cooper quotes

“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.”
-- Thomas Cooper

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“The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.”
-- Thomas Cooper

Source : Thomas Cooper (1830). “A treatise on the law of libel and the liberty of the press: showing the origin, use, and abuse of the law of libel”, p.9

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“Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.”
-- Thomas Cooper

Source : Thomas Cooper (1812). “The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq: Professor of Chemistry at Carlisle College, Pennsylvania”, p.4

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“Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
-- Thomas Cooper

Source : Thomas Cooper (1829). “Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...”, p.375

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“I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”

“"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."”

“Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!”

“Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.”

“The next time you get scared, get sacred!”

“According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”

“The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.”

“The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.”

“We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.”

“Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.”