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 VAUGHANPerhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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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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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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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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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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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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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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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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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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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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