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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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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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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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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 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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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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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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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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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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No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.
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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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There's no repentance in the grave.
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In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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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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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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In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
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