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

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Science, Accomplished, Mathematician

Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.32

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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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Men, Vices, Dry

Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.247

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In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.

Isaac Barrow

Men, World, Favors

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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?

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Hands, Design, Bed

Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.308

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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.

Isaac Barrow

Men, Play, Church

Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.339

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There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

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Flower, Yield, Lovely

Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.145

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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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Believe, Men, Charity

Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”, p.14

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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.

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Roving, Fancy, Way

Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.306

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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.

Isaac Barrow

Men, Benefits, Should

Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.45

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

Isaac Barrow

Men, Generosity, Quality

Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.53

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Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

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Wickedness, Slander, Complication

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

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Matter, Facetious, Obscene

Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.366

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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.

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Adversity, Men, Degrees

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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.

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Men, Speak, Should

Isaac Barrow (1887). “Sermons on Evil-Speaking”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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

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Instruments, Contempt, Dues

Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.354

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Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

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Sympathy, Together, Band

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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.

Isaac Barrow

Integrity, Men, Mind

Isaac Barrow (1861). “The Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.144

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Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

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Rewards, Fruit, Industry

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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.

Isaac Barrow

Ideas, Use, Quacks

Isaac Barrow (1735). “Geometrical Lectures: Explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of Curve Lines”, p.4

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

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Sin, Judgment, Provocative

Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.390

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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.

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Wise, Mistake, Prejudice

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Died: May 4, 1677
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