"I pass by that it is very culpable……" — Isaac Barrow
"I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters."
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Isaac Barrow
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27 Quotes by Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow has 27 quotes on this site.
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual…
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
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Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any…
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or…
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at…
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with…
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That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence,…
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It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with…
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Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.
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I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that…
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We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most…
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Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others…
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As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a…
— Thomas Ligotti
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If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more…
— Genghis Khan
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This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he…
— Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
— Will Durant
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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring…
— Jonathan Gottschall
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While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more…
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