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.
BILL VAUGHANYour thoughts are making you.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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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 pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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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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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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