The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. Isaac Barrow More Quotes by Isaac Barrow More Quotes From Isaac Barrow Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. Isaac Barrow lame mind heart The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries. Isaac Barrow reading country book Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. Isaac Barrow affair foundation math It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him. Isaac Barrow duplicity disappointment character He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. Isaac Barrow faith friendship book Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather. Isaac Barrow mushrooms pain night The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves. Isaac Barrow preparation happiness order Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. Isaac Barrow fading serenity smile Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. Isaac Barrow shallowness simplicity crafts 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. Isaac Barrow design sin may 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 roving fancy way Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause. Isaac Barrow praise ears sweet 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. Isaac Barrow lovely yield flower 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. Isaac Barrow fear together men 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? Isaac Barrow design bed hands Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. Isaac Barrow boisterous zeal prejudice 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. Isaac Barrow flower house book Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt. Isaac Barrow causes ignorance mistake Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards. Isaac Barrow rewards fruit industry Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency. Isaac Barrow college years art
