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.
BILL VAUGHANOne in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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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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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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