Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
BILL VAUGHANIt would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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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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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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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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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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