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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
Isaac Watts
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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Isaac Watts
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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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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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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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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 is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
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Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
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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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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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thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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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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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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Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
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Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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