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John Balguy (August 12, 1686 – September 21, 1748) was an English divine and philosopher.

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Contentment is a pearl of great price

Contentment, Pearl, Pearls, Price

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.

Contentment, Desires, Happiness, Inner Peace, Procures, Wise

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.

Men, Seldom, Swallowed, Take, Wisdom, Wise

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.

Bad, Children, Giving, Good, Hands, Time

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Wade Belak

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James B. Utt

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Frederick William Borden

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Andrew Kreisberg

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Alexander Kotov

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Tom Sizemore

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