Isaac Watts Quotes
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.
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Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
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Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
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When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
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Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
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When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
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Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
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A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.
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As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.
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The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
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At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.
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Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
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The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
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I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
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Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.
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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.