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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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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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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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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The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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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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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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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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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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I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
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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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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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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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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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There's no repentance in the grave.
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In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
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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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When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.