Your thoughts are making you.
BILL VAUGHANMaterial civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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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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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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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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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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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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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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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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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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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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