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Quotes from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers — Isaac Barrow

1630–1677 England

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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 it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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