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Everyday is a birthday every moment of it is new to us we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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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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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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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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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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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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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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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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To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.
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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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In books, or work, or healthful play.
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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
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From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise ariseLet the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
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I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
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Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.
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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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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
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