savors too much of private interest."
- Edmund Waller
(03/03/1606 – 10/21/1687)
English writer
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| "The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."
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| "Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten."
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"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
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"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."
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"When one door closes another door opens; but
we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we
do not see the ones which open for us."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."
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"One day when he was eating a cookie he offered
me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs,
it could darn near have been a proposal."
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"I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either."
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