William Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
-- William Jones

#Time #Law #Heaven
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
-- William Jones

#Country #Law
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my sorrows, the guide of my soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope went from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world.
-- William Jones

#Bible #Christian #Heart
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.
-- William Jones

#Latin #Perfect #Greek
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
-- William Jones

#Hard Work #Opportunity #Self Improvement
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.
-- William Jones

#Christian #Men #Vices
Live as if you already are what you wish to become.
-- William Jones

#Wish #Ifs
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.
-- William Jones

#Ignorance #Animal #Dumb
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
-- William Jones

#Hands #Opinion #Should
In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.
-- William Jones

#Interchange
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
-- William Jones

#Attention #Literature #Infinity
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
-- William Jones

#Nature #Science #Different
Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.
-- William Jones

#Body #Helping #Public Service
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
-- William Jones

#Book #Important #May
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.
-- William Jones

#Teacher #Poetry #World
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.
-- William Jones

#Simple #Ease #Pearls

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