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.
BILL VAUGHANThe most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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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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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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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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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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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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These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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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.
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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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