Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
BILL VAUGHANThe wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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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 suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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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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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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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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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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