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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

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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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Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
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There's no repentance in the grave.
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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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I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
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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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Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
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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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In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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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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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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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
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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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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
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Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food our house, our parent, and our nurse.
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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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Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
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