Quotes by Edmund Waller

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• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  ― Edmund Waller
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• Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

  ― Edmund Waller
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Subjects in these quotes:

• shepherds
• sailors
• cursed
• prayed

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