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Soil Quotes by Isaac Barrow

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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…

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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…

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No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of…

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An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

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We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

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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…

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He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

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Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these…

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The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

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Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

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Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

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The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties…

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It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

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