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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

Bill Vaughan

I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
BILL VAUGHAN

Blessed Islamic War
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Beautiful Children Jobs Manager
Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Discipline Mean Protection
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
BILL VAUGHAN

Gossip Grows Myth
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
BILL VAUGHAN

Grasp Hands Power Ties
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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Heart Love Philosophy
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Character Forgiveness United States
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Behaviour Littles People
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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Details Men Patience
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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Progress Stars Worry
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Blushes Modesty Rainbow
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
BILL VAUGHAN

Contentment Greed Strong
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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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Behavior Manners
One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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High Station Tedious Unmoved Unreasonable

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