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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Bill Vaughan

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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Atheist Believe Self
Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Discipline Mean Protection
Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Book Ideas People
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Goal Hero Men
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Admirer Followers Virtue
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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Collision Myth Real
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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Differences Holy Ignore Long People
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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Creative Giving Sublime
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Best Hoping Worst
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Elderly Funny Witty
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Adversity Art Books Threaten
Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Crime Dark Proof Window
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Deceit Remembrance World
Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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God Morning Waiting
I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Government Thursday
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Deeds Friendly God Noble
The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Said Salvation Saved
They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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Book Depend Give Science Strength Upon
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Day Disappear Groundhog Prophet
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Gas Home Outdoors Wonderful World
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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Christmas Motivational New Year
The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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Look Perfume Showers Struggle
Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Behavior Manners
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Chief Embroidery Humility
If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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Differences House Thinking
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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Also Close Convincing Distance Evidence Luxury
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Great Instinct Truth Worship

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