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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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. (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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? (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men’s virtues and good qualities (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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 (Isaac Barrow Quotes)
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