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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

Bill Vaughan

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?
BILL VAUGHAN

Heart Love Philosophy
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
BILL VAUGHAN

Events Future Life Water
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
BILL VAUGHAN

Mean Meditate Meditation Ourselves Self
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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Character Fire Gillitering Heaven Martyrs Massive Strongest
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
BILL VAUGHAN

Conversation People Pocket Watches
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Bait Beauty Grace
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Exhausted Feelings Way
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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Dark Funny Teeth
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
BILL VAUGHAN

Effort Funny Humor
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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Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
Live constructively and live optimistically.
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Constructed Live Optimistically
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Among Cannibal Vegetarians
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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Invited Irritating Party
No one can bring to God what you can.
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Bring God Uniqueness

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

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