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Isaac Barrow was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to the fields of geometry and calculus. He is known for his work on the tangent line and for being the first to use the term 'infinitesimal'. Barrow was a professor at Cambridge University and is considered one of the founders of the Cambridge Mathematical School.

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“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.”

Ifs Men Should May Mean Desire Honest Dangerous Hatred Every Man Endeavor Temper Provoking Good Will Enmity Desire To Live

Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

“We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.”

Should Opinion Excellence Appreciation Preserves Modest

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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.”

Ifs Men Should Play Church Serious Bars Strict Swearing

Book:The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow

Source: The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow

“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.”

Men Should Speak Veneration

Book:Sermons on Evil-Speaking

Source: Sermons on Evil-Speaking

“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.”

Men Should Mind Deals Integrity Importance Affair Satisfaction Mutual Assurance Fidelity Competent Constancy

Book:The works of Isaac Barrow

Source: The works of Isaac Barrow

“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.”

Men Should Together Fear Divine Please Honestly Gods Will Awe Behaviour Divine Power

Book:The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow

Source: The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow

“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.”

Men Should Humans Interest Benefits Highest Conscience Obligation Human Society Public Interest

Book:The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow

Source: The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow