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 VAUGHANThe 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?
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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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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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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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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The 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.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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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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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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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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