Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
BILL VAUGHANEvil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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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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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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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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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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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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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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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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