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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.

Bill Vaughan

I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
BILL VAUGHAN

Blessed Islamic War
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?
BILL VAUGHAN

Heart Love Philosophy
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
BILL VAUGHAN

Axes Mean Phases
Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
BILL VAUGHAN

Evil Other World Worlds
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Baby Children Happiness
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Depend Give Science Strength Upon
Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
BILL VAUGHAN

Evil People Weakness
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
BILL VAUGHAN

Elderly Funny Witty
What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
BILL VAUGHAN

Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
BILL VAUGHAN

Discipline Mean Protection
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
BILL VAUGHAN

Behaviour Defined Imagination Inspire
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Differences Issues Strong
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
BILL VAUGHAN

Events Future Life Water
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Men Mirror Running Water
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
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 VAUGHAN

Character Fire Gillitering Heaven Martyrs Massive Strongest
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Grace Gracious Heart Moving Saint
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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Discipline Sensible Sports
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
BILL VAUGHAN

Clay Harden Same Sun
The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
BILL VAUGHAN

Knowing Wise Wonderful
There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
BILL VAUGHAN

Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Highest Long Men Race Respond
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?
BILL VAUGHAN

Couple House May
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
BILL VAUGHAN

Every Flattery Man Woman
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
BILL VAUGHAN

Bird Century Firsts God Next
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Conceit Discerning Endowed Eye Himself Veils

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