John Balguy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
-- John Balguy

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Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.
-- John Balguy

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Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.
-- John Balguy

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Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
Contentment is the only real wealth
Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

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