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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
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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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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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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Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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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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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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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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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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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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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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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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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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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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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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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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