"Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence,…" — Isaac Barrow
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27 Quotes by Isaac Barrow
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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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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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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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More Anecdotes Quotes
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one of 97 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
— Italo Calvino
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have…
— Carl Sagan
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
— Charlotte Gray
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Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied…
— Bill Cosby
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and…
— Chris Mooney
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