Isaac Barrow - Men Quotes

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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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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

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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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Men should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of their own.

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

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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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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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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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