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.
BILL VAUGHANHow 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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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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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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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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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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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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