It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

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• Isaac Barrow:

  Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they obser

• Isaac Barrow:

  Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base

• Isaac Barrow:

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

• Isaac Barrow:

  If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict the

• Isaac Barrow:

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

• Isaac Barrow:

  No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will con

• Isaac Barrow:

  That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction

• Isaac Barrow:

  That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be allege

• Isaac Barrow:

  That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should li

• Isaac Barrow:

  Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commenda