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.
BILL VAUGHANThere 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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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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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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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.
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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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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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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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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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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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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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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