Countenance Quote by Isaac Barrow

“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.” quote by Isaac Barrow — Download Open image

“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”

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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 our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be…

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

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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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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not…

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Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can…

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At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history,…

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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that…

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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human…

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It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the…

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask thy favors ... He who neglects the service of the Blessed Virgin will die in his sins ... He who does not invoke thee, O Lady, will never get to Heaven ... Not only will those from whom…

Bonaventure

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so…

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