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.
BILL VAUGHANDiscipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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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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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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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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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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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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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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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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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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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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Letters should be easy and natural.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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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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