Isaac Barrow Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.”
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“The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.”
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“He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.”
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“It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.”
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“Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.”
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“The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.”
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“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”
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“Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.”
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“That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.”
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“An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.”
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“That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.”
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“No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.”
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“If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.”
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“Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.”
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“We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.”
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“Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.”
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“He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.”
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“Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.”
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“Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.”
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“I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.”
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“None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.”
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“The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.”
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“We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.”
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“In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.”
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“Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.”
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“Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.”
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“Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.”
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“Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.”
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“As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.”
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“It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.”
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