The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHANOut 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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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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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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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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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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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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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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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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