Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
BILL VAUGHANBooks are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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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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Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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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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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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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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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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Letters should be easy and natural.
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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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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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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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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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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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