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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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