It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
BILL VAUGHANThe suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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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.
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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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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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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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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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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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