Quote#Self
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night…
Quote byIsaac Barrow · 1630–1677
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 612.
English (original)
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.
— Isaac Barrow
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