Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
BILL VAUGHANOur lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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