Isaac Watts Quotes
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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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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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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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For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne; Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward.
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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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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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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
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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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There's no repentance in the grave.
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Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give.
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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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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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 a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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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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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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Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.
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I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
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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.