Isaac Barrow Quotes About Virtue

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

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

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• 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.

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  Isaac Barrow (1831). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.241

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

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