When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
BILL VAUGHANMost of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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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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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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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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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.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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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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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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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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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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