"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest." Edmund Waller
(03/03/1606 – 10/21/1687)
English writer
"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, 
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"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
William Godwin
"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."
Sir John Murray
"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."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."
Emile Chartier
"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."
Jean Harlow
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Peter Abrahams
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Robyn Hitchcock
"I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain."
Jessica Biel
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Marguerite Duras
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Fred Friendly
"When the student is ready, the lesson appears."
Gene Oliver
"If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten."
Sir Roger Bannister