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 VAUGHANThe world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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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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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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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 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.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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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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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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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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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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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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