William Jones Quotes

#1. Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

William Jones

#2. 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

#3. Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

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#4. 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

#5. My companions said to me, if I would visit the grave of my friend, I might somewhat alleviate my worries. I answered "could she be buried elsewhere than in my heart?

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#6. [I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ...

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#7. My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

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#8. Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

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#9. 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

#10. Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

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#11. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

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#12. In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

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#13. Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

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#14. An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

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#15. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

William Jones