"Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame."

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Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.115

John Denham

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“I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...”
“Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.”
“An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.”
“I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.”
“Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.”
“At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water”
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
“While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.13, Vintage

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