Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
BILL VAUGHANThe 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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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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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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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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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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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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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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