Quotes by Isaac Barrow

Isaac Barrow

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

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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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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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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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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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Flower

House

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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May

Sin

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Ears

Praise

Sweet

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

Contempt

Dues

Instruments

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

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Men

Quality

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

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Quotes by Isaac Barrow

Isaac Barrow

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

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

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

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

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