Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
BILL VAUGHANWhat’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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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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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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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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 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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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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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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I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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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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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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