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Isaac Barrow Quotes

English - Mathematician | 1630 - May 4, 1677

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

Youth Serenity Smiling Never Always

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

Matters Pass Very Obscene

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Friend Book Want Will Never Who

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.

Hope Design Bad Sin Others Follow

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.

Live God Power Men Together Will

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.

Men Believe Charity Reward Nothing

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

Thoughts Choice Safe Make Your Ever

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Things Instrument Most Contempt Vile

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.

Men Church Play Serious Bar Expect

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

Sin Others Judgment Divine Swearing

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.

Man Speak Will Him Prince He

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.

Confidence Integrity Men Mind Deal

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