Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
BILL VAUGHANOn the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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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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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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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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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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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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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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No one can bring to God what you can.
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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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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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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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Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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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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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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