They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
BILL VAUGHANPatience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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