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Famous Isaac Barrow Quotes
“Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.”
“We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.”
“Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.”
“We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.”
“The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.”
“I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.”
“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”
“Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.”
“An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.”
“It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.”