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

Isaac Watts

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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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In books, or work, or healthful play.
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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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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
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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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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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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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thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
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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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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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