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. Isaac Barrow More Quotes by Isaac Barrow More Quotes From Isaac Barrow Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Isaac Barrow generosity quality men 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 dry vices men It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. Isaac Barrow revenge mind sweet No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind. Isaac Barrow degrees adversity men 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. Isaac Barrow hatred men mean Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. Isaac Barrow provocative judgment sin We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own. Isaac Barrow opinion excellence appreciation 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. Isaac Barrow reading book thinking Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. Isaac Barrow contempt dues instruments 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 charity men believe I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. Isaac Barrow facetious obscene matter 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. Isaac Barrow church play men 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 mind integrity men Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes Isaac Barrow anecdotes nonsense kind 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. Isaac Barrow speak should men 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 benefits should men It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. Isaac Barrow choices safe An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. Isaac Barrow mathematician accomplished science Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks. Isaac Barrow quacks use ideas 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 prejudice wise mistake
