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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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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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Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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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.
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Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
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It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.
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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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My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.
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Your thoughts are making you.
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