The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
BILL VAUGHANThe effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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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.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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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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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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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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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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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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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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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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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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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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