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

—  Isaac Barrow

Isaac Barrow, Duty of Thanksgiving, Works, Volume I, p. 66; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 921-24

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English Christian theologian, and mathematician 1630–1677

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