Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.Isaac Barrow
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Isaac Barrow
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Isaac Barrow
A man is bound to perform his vows to the Lord, whatever they be, whatever damage or trouble thence may accrue to him, if they be not unlawful.
Isaac Barrow
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes)
Isaac Barrow
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