Isaac Barrow Quotes

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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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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

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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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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

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Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

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If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.

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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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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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Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

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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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Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

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Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

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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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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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Mathematics — the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

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Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

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Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

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Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

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Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

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An accomplished mathematician, i. e. a most wretched orator.

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Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

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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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Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

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Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

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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.

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