He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
BILL VAUGHANAs 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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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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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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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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