Isaac Watts Quotes
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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
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What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
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Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
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It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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In books, or work, or healthful play.
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Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
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Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
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Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.
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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
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Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
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The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
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For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.